Many of you have realized now that I am a big supporter of upcycling, repurposing and salvage. A coworker today sent me a link to Inhabitat that she knew I would be all over. This Dutch home is constructed of salvaged material all found within 9 miles of the building site [buying and sourcing local is one of the easiest sustainable ideologies to incorporate into your life and boosts your local economy] using material from old factories and warehouses. The team at
2012architects utilized Google Earth to locate possible sites for materials and 60% of the exterior shell is salvaged and 90% of the interior is. The exterior is all lumber from old electrical spools and reels and the cabinets are old signs and billboards. I love ingenuity like this.
Just think of how small our landfills would be in everyone salvaged instead of discarding. Makes me think of what happened to many of the displays and built elements from IDS11...
You can read more of the article at
Inhabitat which links you back to the source from
Dwell Magazine. Photos are from Mark Seleen for
Dwell.
so unique! you inspire to live in a very original house........
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Wow, this is awesome!! I really love finding out about projects like this! I had a post about a school in Bali that was made entirely of bamboo!! :) Seriously awesome - I love the direction these projects take us :)
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the Big Dig house? Another great example of building with salvaged materials.
ReplyDeletehttp://inhabitat.com/the-big-dig-house-reaches-completion/