Engineered for Impact

GREEN-HOUSE 2025 X Mercedes-Benz

When an Icon Becomes a System

For GREEN-HOUSE 2025, Mercedes-Benz Singapore returned for the third consecutive year, and this time the scale of ambition matched the scale of the installation itself.

Miniature G-Class Mercedes-Benz model displayed alongside a blueprint illustrating the structure of the life-sized modular furniture by Editecture and Wastd.

Living Form, Lasting Purpose

40,531 discarded plastic bottles. 580kg of rPET. One life-sized silhouette of the newly launched electric Mercedes-Benz G-Class, designed in collaboration with Hong Kong and London-based multidisciplinary studio Editecture.

The life-size G-Class installation, built from 40,531 recycled bottles and is a modular furniture system

From a distance, it reads as an homage, a beloved automotive icon rendered in full, honouring its evolution from off-road legend to electric future. Step closer, and the form reveals itself as something else entirely: a modular system of chairs, shelves, and lamps, each piece engineered for structural strength, easy disassembly, and repeated reuse.

The car was never meant to stay a car. That was the point all along.

Visitors of all ages interacting with the Engineered for Impact installation at GREEN-HOUSE Festival 2025

After GREEN-HOUSE 2025, the installation was disassembled into 25 modular furniture pieces, proving that upcycled plastic design, when done with intention, doesn't end at the exhibition. It continues.

"This isn't just recycling. It's a re-calibration of value. Each colourful flake holds the potential for a structural revolution." — [Placeholder: Editecture]

From Hand to Coral

In collaboration with Singapore-based studio WASTD, GREEN-HOUSE 2025 offered visitors something they could take home: a BYO bottle holder, each handcrafted from locally collected discarded plastic and personalised with the owner's initials.

A WASTD-crafted BYO bottle holder, personalised with initials and a Mercedes-Benz charm

It is a small object, but the thinking behind it is not small. Replacing the disposable with the enduring, making conscious material choices feel personal rather than prescriptive, is exactly the kind of shift that compounds over time. 100% of proceeds went directly to the Garden City Fund's 100K Corals Initiative, extending the impact of each holder from the hand that carries it to the reefs that sustain the ecosystem around us.

The From Hand to Coral bottle holder in use, supporting the Garden City Fund's coral restoration efforts

What It Takes to Evolve

Hosted by Rosalyn Lee, a short film traced the full arc of the collaboration, from beaches and classrooms to design studios and community hubs, documenting how changemakers are reimagining the future of plastic waste one material decision at a time. It is one thing to build an installation. It is another to document the process honestly and share it, making the methodology as visible as the outcome.

Rozz uncovers how changemakers—together with Mercedes-Benz—are reimagining the future of plastic, showing that true evolution begins when we act as one.

Rosalyn Lee sat on the recycled G-Class structure

Three years in, this collaboration with Mercedes-Benz has grown into something that reflects what GREEN-HOUSE is for: creating room for ideas that are serious about impact to be seen, tested, and taken further. The door is open for partners who want to build in that same direction.