Green Technology Furniture Construction

This video shows how furniture can be built using green technology (Zipblocks).

Zipblocks are green for several reasons.

1) The biggest reason that they are green is simply because you can use them over and over again. If you get tired of what you built, just take it apart and build something else. In this sensetheir value never diminishes.
2)They create zero waste during construction. When you cut Zipblocks in two you dont create waste you only create two smaller blocks!
3)They can be made out of sustainable resources. The ones illustrated in this video were made out of wood.

In this video we demonstrate the assembly/disassembly of a small planter box that has a somewhat fancy design. We chose to make it small and somewhat fancy so that we could demonstrate this building systems ability to effortlessly morph into almost any geometric shape.

We get a lot of requests for Zipblocks and/or Zipblock pricing. Unfortunately we have not found a manufacturer to make them out of wood yet so we dont have any to sell and we dont have any exact pricing. Despite this, we do have an idea as to what they may cost when they do become available.

The blocks in this movie were made out of cabinet-grade plywood. A sheet of this plywood runs around $33 at your local home supply center. You can easily create 333 two inch Zipblocks from a sheet of this plywood. This means that each two inch Zipblocks costs $33/333 = 10 cents.

The blocks used to create the planter box ranged from 2 to 6 cubes long. The total number of cubes needed to build it was 62 cubes. So at 10 cents per cube this planter box would cost around $6.20 to build. Please keep in mind that bulk purchasing and manufacturing would drive costs down. Also keep in mind that we used expensive plywood to build our blocks with. One could easily make blocks from materials that are much less expensive.

To learn more about these and other blocks you can visit us at http://www.ZipBlocks.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• furniture
• green
• technology
• architectural
• planter
• sustainable
• resources
• reuse
• recycle
• wood
• design
• diy
• homemade

[Indygoguy]

If you were to make a portable closet let's say, the blocks wouldn't have to be so small would they? They could be the same thickness but maybe 10 inches by 24 inches.

[Zipblocks]

@Indygoguy Yup, one could easily make Zipblocks with those dimensions.

[warrentyvoider]

Seems like wood lego to me

[boardertotheline]

You need to sound more excited to sell this product! ^-^ You sound bored and that doesnt sell.

[reap62]

to the people that are talking about making skyscrapers and other large buildings out of these it say furniture construction not industrial office building construction of course these arent intended for building whole buildings just chairs tables shelves and other small furniture around the house

[Indygoguy]

If you were to make lang shelves, say maybe two feet deep by 6 ft long, you could use a few 6 ft long square aluminum tubes as "keys" to give it strength so the shelf wont sag.

[Odiseo555]

Que tipo tan aburrido

[ZedGamer]

If you just cut all the times you say "um" in the video out that it will seem more appealing. Try preparing a script of all the interesting things about it so it really seems like you are an expert on it; Cool idea, it really deserves attention.

[bushloe]

it really annoys me when people sigh and sound like they really dont want to be doing the video smile be happy XD

[lendu1000]

stupid idea why would you waste your time with such a stupid idea