Székesfehérvár was known as the city of the kings, however this time the center of Fejér state's capital city became a mini Paris. A huge, 12 meter high aluminium Eiffel Tower was set up by dozens of volunteers in order to popularize selective refuse collection and recycling. It took 2500 working hours to cover the miniaturized steel-frame with more than 15000 aluminium drink can sheets. Making the alunimium tower was not a copy-paste job.
This work of art was completed by using the Alu-GO method: attaching the aluminium sheets to each other without using further fixative. The inventor Gyula Balázs, the father of Alu-GO said: a lot of people from different cities worked together on this project, engineers from the Technical University Budapest have been involved, waste collector companies from the countryside, like schoolchildren from high schools, in order to demonstrate an environmentally conscious behaviour by creating a measureble, visible and creative result.
If you have missed to visit the Alu-tower, don't be sad, you can check it on the Aluminium 2008 show in Essen, or on the Ökotech exhibition in Budapest.
See the complete article in hungarian language at:
http://alu-go.com/hu/alu-go_eiffel_szekesfehervar
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