This building is not just about stacking paper and cardboard, but is also a pile of different social and cultural contexts. The city Bergisch Gladbach in Germany has made its fortune with the paper industry and the museum Villa Zanders is housed in the former villa of paper magnate Zanders. For the exhibition Leben in Karton (‘A Life in Cardboard’) we came up with a temporary paper café. A café made from 370 tons of waste paper collected from all the inhabitants of Bergisch Gladbach over a period of three months. 740 pressed paper bales are stacked 6 bales high along both sides of the paved museum park path. The path becomes a building. A building made from litter, winking at Albert Speer’s neo-classicist architecture. Here, you can have a drink in your very own recycled paper Speer. After the exhibition the building returns to the usual recycling process. This project was never carried out. The authorities demanded there be permanent security guards to prevent arson. This would have been over budget.