Cardboard House "village molecule"

House built entirelly from cardboard
Inherent strength of the triangle applied to easily found materials and generates a low-cost solution to basic shelter/housing. A diamond shape is cut from a cardboard box at a fold and used as a basic repeating "molecule" to build terahedra and half octahedra which are "woven" together and attached with duct tape and glue (or perhaps sewn together if someone has some time on their hands) forming eventually a wall and roof framing structure which can then be clad in sheetrock and siding and roofing tar, the residual carboard left over from the boxes can be ground up and used for insulation in the cavities. more drawings at friendsofvollendorf.com




this project is an entry in the Guggenheim, Googleand Taliesin Fellowship Design it : Shelter Competition

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Cardboard
• affordable
• median
• income
• shelter
• housing
• Frank
• Lloyd
• Wright
• usonian
• automatic
• architecture
• Design
• It
• Shelter
• Competition

[barewaller]

I think this could be an approach to emergency housing—especially if the 'module' could be mass produced

[barewaller]

from a flower to a garden

[TheSolarmike]

I am going to build a bunch of different concepts and test them. Waterproof the cardboard

[toourbantolive]

this is ingenious. i wonder if you could design a cardboard emergency/disaster shelter, as well.

[palttrog2]

AAA+++

[larsruberti]

Amazing idea man :o would be great if someone really tried to build that..