MaximsNewsNetwork: HAITI TIRE ART UN MINUSTAH

MaximsNewsNetwork: 17 October 2009 - MINUSTAH: In Haiti one can find car tires everywhere on the streets. There are about 200,000 vehicles in the country, consuming on average 500,000 tires per year. But with imagination interesting objects can be made out of these tires.

In Haiti one can find car tires everywhere on the streets. There are about 200,000 vehicles in the country, consuming on average 500,000 tires per year. But with imagination interesting objects can be made out of these tires.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
If we had been intelligent, we could have already solved a problem which we face: mosquitoes grow in the tires, they constitute as well a potential source of diseases and they are also very dangerous because they can take fire. If we want to use them, there are possibilities to manufacture many things with them.
Gary Pierre-Charles is quite well known by local tire street vendors who sometimes keep tires for him. He recently started transforming car tires into decorative and also useful objects. These birds are used as flower pots.
SOUND OVER PICTURE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
A tire is generally thick and absorbs heat when the sun strikes it during the day. It transmits the heat to the ground. Also the ground itself thus becomes hotter which accelerates the growth of the plants.
Being an architect, Gary has even built a house with tires. He used a technique which was invented by young ecologists in the eighties in California. In its courtyard, Gary also constructed terraces out of tire to retain the ground.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
In zones with much erosion one can use the tires to plant trees inside the tires since it is a very easy work that demands a lot of labor. Also this work could create a lot of job possibilities. In this sense one could intervene at the ravines in order to reduce the speed of descending water by using for examples the tires.

SOUND OVER PICTURE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
Another thing: one can create playgrounds for children because the tires are soft and children cannot get hurt. Another possibility: we can use the tires to construct the foundation of the roads because our roads are so bad due to the increased descent of water in the rainy season. Thus the tires are used to manufacture the foundation as a base of the roads.

While working with the tires, Gary and his team noted that the tires come from 45 different countries.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
The industrialized countries send us their garbage because in their countries the rules prohibit them to use the old tires. Due to this fact they send them to us as waste. However, my dream would be to send them the car tires back, but in form of these birds. So they are going to send us their garbage and we send it to them back as art craft. This is my dream.

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