Patagonia Design Studio

Recrafting Interior Experiences at Woodbury School of Architecture

Patagonia’s Recrafted program makes clothes made from other clothes.  Created from thousands of used garments diverted from the landfill, sorted and salvaged at their Reno Repair Center, designed to see the potential in the things left behind, and finally deconstructed and sewn in Los Angeles—this collection shows the true force of what radical acts of imagination can become. 

This 2020 undergraduate interior architecture studio taught by Lara Hoad and Todd Erlandson explored how the Patagonia Recrafted strategy might be applied to interior spaces.  Considering Los Angeles’ homeless crisis and the School of Architecture’s overarching theme of housing, the program attempted to marry an outdoor themed mobile compact living unit for Patagonia Recrafted apprentices, with the necessary production and retail spaces to create an integrated loop system where the revenue from the product supports the apprenticeship program.  Taking inspiration from the “cut and paste” collage practice that Recrafted uses, students were asked to think spatially about that which is “left behind” at the given site, and how it can be radically repurposed, as well as considering how to create spaces that reflect Patagonia’s commitment to the climate crisis and defending the home planet.

In partnership with Patagonia Inc. Student work by Kimberly Franco, Lorena Perez, Parvane Zainali, Niara Petrosian, Anginay Nazarian