Sustainable Design (Scrap House)

The Scraphouse is a house built entirely from scrap and salvaged materials. It’s very interesting how creative ideas come with the use of materials which at some point were considered useless. I loved the way 'scraps' were given a new life. This proves to people that designs could be creative and sustainable at the same time. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that the different areas in the house didn't blend together. In other words, there wasn't a sense of harmony intems of design as each space had it's different characterstics.

Some of the ideas which i liked were:

The keyboard wall

This image shows a wall covered with keyboards and the keyboards were coated by fire retardant paint.


Traffic light chandelier



Fire hose wall



Molding/trim wall

Used frame walls, windows, and doorways, were put together as a collage on one of the walls at the Scrap House.

"Perhaps what was most intriguing about ScrapHouse was the creative use of previously discarded materials--most of which were destined for the landfill, often unused with the original price tags still affixed" (scraphouse.org).


References
http://www.scraphouse.org