Tucked away in the tiny city of Kunisaki in Oita Prefecture,
is an abandoned elementary school that’s filled with cardboard boxes.
And inside those cardboard boxes, are…
well, to put it simply, even more cardboard boxes.
That’s because D-torso is a company that turns cardboard boxes into unique and detailed
designs.
And when this elementary school was forced to close due to declining population,
that’s when D-Torso moved in and turned it into their factory.
Walking through the halls of an elementary school that has been decorated with skeletal
animal figures made out of cardboard is definitely a surreal experience.
Oh my god!
Oh Fantastic!
Fantastic, it’s amazing.
This is so cool they’ve actually made this old elementary school into a cardboard box
factory where they can make almost anything?
practically anything out of cardboard boxes, so check this out!
Chihuahuas!
These guitars are super cool too!
I find it really, a little bit creepy and alarming that none of these mannequins have
heads.
But he says its easier for them to show off the clothes they’re wearing if they don’t
have faces.
Except for this one which has the head of a horse.
Why did you decide to work with boxes?
Simply because they’re cheap.
Ahaha, it’s as simple as that!
What was the very first design that you made?
We made mannequins but mannequins aren’t exactly something you can sell a lot of, but
we got requests for cats and dogs and slowly our repertoire began to expand after that.
Just a casual mushroom kingdom in a hallway, no big deal.
This is so cool!
And right above we’ve got some pteryldactyls.
The school staff room is now their office, where they think up new designs, and ultimately,
figure out how they’re going to put them all together.
This one is wearing shoes.
Oh you’re right!
These are so cool, I wanna buy all of them and just build them and make a house full
of cardboard animals.
Something that looks more or less exactly like this classroom but like, in my house.
And then I would invite all my friends over and we would sit in my little cardboard zoo
and we would never leave.
Nobody would ever leave.
And nobody would ever be sad, they’d always be happy, because they’d be surrounded by
cardboard boxes shaped like godzilla and dinosaurs and animals, it would be perfect!
Come over!