Metabolic House on Flickr.
Key to the Metabolic House:
A Recycling Chutte / B Mulch Processor / C Mulsch Collector / D Mulch Pickup / E Mulch / F Paper/fuel processor tank / G Furnace-boiler / H Piped-in biodegradable detergent / I Water recycling and distilling system / J Paperless toilet / K Vertical conveyor / L Horizontal conveyor / M Pollution control filters
by William Stumpf, 1989
Published in Lupton, Ellen, and J. Abbott Miller. 1992. The bathroom, the kitchen and the aesthetics of waste: a process of elimination. Cambridge, Mass: MIT List Visual Arts Center.
#thevalueofgarbage | A contribution by N. John Habraken.
In the early 1960ties Alfred Heineken, owner of the Heineken breweries noted large heaps of discarded beer when visiting Latin American and African countries. It was company policy to brew all Heineken beer in the Netherlands where quality could be controlled more directly. Where in Holland bottles might be re-used as many as thirty times, those sent overseas were not returned empty. Observing the waste caused by this policy, Heineken decided to produce a beer bottle that could serve as a building brick when empty, thereby responding to the need for shelter in those countries.
In 1963 he asked me to design the WOBO (WOrld BOttle) bottle for him and after several dead end concepts we arrived at a model of which eventually some sixty thousand units were produced by the Royal Glass Works in Leerdam, NL, where much of the heineken bottles came from. The WOBO came in two sizes, one for the 33cl version and another containing 50cl.
#thevalueofgarbage
Dominik Lang, ‘Fragment 7 from the project Sleeping City’, 2011, photography collage on paper.
ripperdoc: Cross section of Kowloon Walled City, large version on click through.
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The Value of Garbage, December 2011, Athens
The installation ‘THE BIG CRUNCH’ was build as part of the „stadtfinden“ Architektursommer Darmstadt on the Georg-Büchner-Platz in Darmstadt, on June 2011.
The Big Crunch expands from inside to outside. Common items and domestic remains of civilization such as furniture, refrigerators, wooden items, scrap, timber, windows were assembled organically to create a physical space for social gathering and cohesion.
Ruined Megastructure, Incubation Process, Arata Isozaki 1962
How you recycle ideas? -“Ideas are reproduced, translated and interpreted according to current concerns. Recycling ideas makes possible the transformation of existing material and ideological structures and endows architecture with its creative potential.”
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#kamworkshops2011
One of the main references for the House of Contamination is Cedric Price’s „Fun Palace“, a future-embracing design for a cultural centre that is multifunctional, highly technological, and adaptable to multiple needs. The expectations towards technology have changed since then. Today’s keyword is peak oil, standing for a range of bleak scenarios of radical change in the political and economic world that are starting to contaminate the cycles of production and consumption. The House of Contamination is an update on the 20th century cultural center.
(Source: raumlabor.net)
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