Container Guest House

The container guest house stands as the first successful reuse and adaptation of the shipping containers. It is designed by  Poteet Architects who are known for their sustainable & adaptive reuse of existing buildings. The design serves as a guest house, the space is small yet well designed perfect for family/friends who are visiting. The main problem with reusing containers as living spaces was that it traps heat, but Poteet Architects were able to solve this problem through installing a green garden on op of the roof that acts as insulator & and a cooler at the same time. The interior walls of the container are covered by spray foam and bamboo plywood. The architects were committed to sustainability all the way; the container itself stands on a foundation of recycled telephone poles. The deck is made of recycled soda bottles (HVAC equipment pads). The exterior light fis=xtures are blades from the tractor disc plow. The roof garden is fed from the waste water of the shower in the bathroom. Sustainability all the way.

 

R2B2: Electricity is not the answer!

German designer  Christoph Thetard has created, during his studies at the  Bauhaus University Weimar, an electricity free kitchen machine. He called it R2B2. The R2B2 came to life as a result of an eco-friendly project. There are three different kitchen appliances in the R2B2: Coffee grinder, hand blender, & food processor. All are powered by rotating a flywheel with muscular strength. Electricity is not necessary anymore.

The pedal powers the machine up to 400 rpm which produces 350 W energy per 1 minute. The machine even has a storage cabinet for the different items. You can now exercise while cooking and not just that! You are going to cut down on the electricity bill and make a step in saving the environment.

For the Love of Golden Books

If you think books are only for reading, well, think again!! Boston-Based Designer Ryann Ovelline’s new dress is entirely made of recycled pages from stories,specifically stories that were used to make us sleep when we were kids. Yes ! Children books.  Although it’s not something you would want to wear, but in case you did, you will attract a lot of  toddlers and kids.

Tree Tape

The tree tape was created  by London-based designer Nitipak Samsen to measure how much CO2 a tree absorbs from the air and comparing the findings with real life activities such as car emission, air plane etc…

Jugaad- Public Art Installation, India



“What happens when a thousand oil cans decide to fly?

Jugaad explored this idea through a celebratory and constantly evolving process of re-purposing and redefining the cooking oil can, a ubiquitous feature of Indian life. The project borrows its namefrom a hindi term which refers to attaining any objective with the available resources at hand. Bycombining this attitude with an open-source, inclusive process, the project took recycling and reuse beyond a simple utilitarian measure into an exciting adventure of defiance and collective will. This journey is the result of a unique engagement with the residents of Rajokri, an urban village on the outskirts of New Delhi in India. Over a period of three months, Sanjeev Shankar used the discarded oil can as a vehicle to explore ideas of sustainability, recycling and re-purposing with 90 other residents from the village. Using grass root ingenuity, Jugaad reincarnated 945 such cans into an incredible free-standing shade canopy spread over 70 square metres. This story celebrates the practice of jugaad and the collective spirit of India and its people.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                sanjeev shankar