Creativity and necessity know no bounds. Recycling is a concept that pretty much thrives on one of those two qualities and sometimes both. It is all about using what you have as useless waste and designing stuff that is of use with elegance attached to it at times. Of course it is the functionality of the form that counts and there are occasions when that functionality is found in the form. This is an amazing example of how you can expand your horizon and probably provide shelter to many homeless souls across the planet.
A project by Denis Oudendijk and Jan Körbes, this Garden Home is a functional four-season garden house with office and storage spaces. Re-used wood, car tyres, and insulation glass and stainless steel trays were used to build it. The people of the house were in need of additional space, facing a 2nd child to be born and the designers apparently proposed to carefully break down the existing chalet-style garden house, re-using its materials and rebuild a bigger, more functional and efficient structure.
The office space is accessed by a side-door with children’s-height window and the storage opens its shutter like a spaceship on the front facade. During the first winter- wind, rain, and snow tested this prototype and encouraging the designers to build more independent units. The main construction is based on wooden frames covered with thin multiplex plates. For a water- and winter proof facade was added with stone wool isolation, a breathable plastic membrane and a layer of old car tyre treads.
This really offers a nice solution if recycled material that are so commonly available in many nations across the planet and discarded as waste can be used for building stable homes for those without shelter.
Via: millegomme
