The Danish architecture firm Lendager Arkitekter recently completed
the experimental Upcycle House in Nyborg, Denmark. The goal with Upcycle
House was seeing if carbon emissions of a home can be reduced through
the use of recycled and upcycled building materials during the
construction process. The end result was the reduction of CO2 emissions
by 86% compared to a benchmark house. Upcycling is a sort of a next step
in the recycling process, namely using recycled products and turning
them into new materials or products of higher quality and greater value.
In the case of Upcycle House, this reduced the need for new production
and therefore reduced the CO2 emissions.
Upcycle House is constructed from two repurposed shipping containers,
which yielded a living area of 129 square meters (1390 square feet).
The work on the house started offsite, where the holes for windows and
doors were cut into the sides of the containers. The containers were
also fitted with plumbing and wiring for the bathroom and kitchen before
they were transported to the building site.
The house was placed on a foundation of helical piles, which require
no excavation to install. They can also be removed from the ground if
the house is torn down. The two shipping containers were well insulated
on the outside, while the team used no plastic foams, instead opting for
Technopor, a rigid insulation made from recycled glass bottles.
The interior of the home features a large living room and kitchen, a
master bedroom, three smaller rooms, a bathroom, a utility room and a
passive cooling chamber. There is also a greenhouse adjacent to the
kitchen, as well as a large south-facing terrace.
The roof and the façade were constructed from recycled aluminum cans.
For the exterior panels, the architects used post-consumer recycled
granulated paper that was pressed together and heat-treated. They used
discarded champagne corks as tiling in the kitchen, while the bathroom
tiles are made from recycled glass.
The walls and the floor of the house were covered with OSB-panels
made from wood-chips discarded as waste by-products by production sites.
These were pressed together without glue to form the panels. Since one
of the goals of the design team was to make Upcycle House look just like
any other modern house, the recycled materials used in the construction
process were kept as invisible as possible. They also focused on
passive sustainability, by taking into account orientation, temperature
zones, daylight optimization, shading and natural ventilation.
Via JETSON GREEN
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http://www.jetsongreen.com/2014/04/upcycle-house-built-from-used-shipping-containers.html
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