simon starling, whose 2005 turner prize winning project shedboatshed was a wooden shed that he found on the banks of the rhine, disassembled, and rebuilt into a boat and paddled to switzerland. he then reassembled the shed in a swiss museum. this journey, not unlike his tabernas desert run 2004, in which sterling built a hydrogen powered motorized bicycle and rode it across the spanish desert painting a watercolor with his exhaust along the way, make an intriguing statement about the advances of modern day mass production and global capitalism.
scraphouse was a single family house constructed on the front lawn of san francisco city hall by non-profit public architecture in celebration of world environment day 2005. every piece of the house was salvaged out of bay area dumps and scrap yards to be constructed into the 700 sf home. according to founder of public architecture, john peterson, "scraphouse illustrates the possibilities -- as well as the challenges -- of green building, recycling, and reuse."
boston-based architects jinhee park and john hong of single speed design recently designed and built a house almost entirely of residual materials from boston's infamous big dig freeway revitalization project...over 600,000 pounds of residual materials were used actually! the interior of space is designed in sleek loft style with exposed concrete, salvaged highway panels and beams, and they even topped the structure off with a green roof. keep an eye out for ssd's upcoming project, a LEED-certified, 7-story multifamily building in jersey city, new jersey. (via architectural record)
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