ABOUT THE COROPLAST BUILD-IT DISKS

Build great things with Tiny WPA’s Coroplast Build-It Disks.

Made from reclaimed political and illegal advertising coroplast signs that are collected in and around Philadelphia, the Coroplast Build-It Disks take Tiny WPA’s cardboard Disks to a new level. Build anything your imagination can dream up, while helping to educate people of all ages about the importance of reusing and repurposing. 

Laser cut in-house at Tiny WPA’s workshop in West Philadelphia, Tiny WPA and its Building Heroes turn non-degradable trash into durable all-weather building disks for hours of endless building fun. From towers and tunnels to igloos and forts!

The disks are also great for team-building and quickly engaging large numbers of people in the beginnings of the redesign of a space.

BACKGROUND

Tiny WPA’s cardboard Build-It! Disks have been used at/by the National Building Museum, The Columbus Museum, The Wexner Center, Monona Terrace, Open House New York, Envision Fest, Toronto Interior Design Show, Philadelphia Center For Architecture, Austin’s Art In Public Places, Association of Architectural Organizations, City Science, eTech Conference, Akron Museum of Art, and Children At Play, among others.

All proceeds help support Tiny WPA and The Building Hero Project. The original cardboard Build-It! Disks were developed by Alex Gilliam in 2011 with the support of the National Building Museum, Domaform and Cynthia Field. The Coroplast Build-It Disks came about through discussions and collaborations with @cleanphil and Mural Arts’ Trash Academy in 2018.

NOTE

Each set includes 20, 12" Coroplast Build-It! Disks. 

It generally takes about 60 Disks to start to build cool things. Most of the larger structures use somewhere between 300-700 Disks.