Cardboard House

[wulf]

How about this? An interesting approach to building a house out of recycled (and recyclable) material.

Wulf

[Andy Hamilton]

That is pretty interesting cheers Wulf. I am thinking that it could be used as a solution in disaster areas. Well at least as a temporary housing solution for refugees when needed. - actually just read some of the fact sheet and this is exactly what they are thinking of.

I wonder what it is like to actually live in? - I also wonder if this takes off would it have the same life as the prefabs post war? Many of those temporary houses are still standing. I can find any info on how long it is designed to last for.

It is expected to cost about 12 000 quid, which I guess is cheap for a house, but is it good enough to bridge the gap for low incomes in the housing market? You can buy a second hand static caravan for about 3000 quid, not as big but probally easier to sell than a cardboard house.

[Ranter]

As temporary housing I think it's great. I'd have concerns about which environments it can be used in though. Suspect it'll be more useful in Australia than a climate like the UK's.

[Boots]

Even comes with under floor water tanks!!!!

That is a funky house and think a couple of them would fit in real well on the farm...


... I wonder if my goats would it eat it though...

[reefskin]

I tried converting the $35,000 Australian dollars - it's about £13,000...

[2steps]

looks good but suppose it would only really work somewhere without to much rain. or you could build your housee a giant umbrella

[pitbull]

seems awful expensive.. one would think you could build a small home much more durable for less?

[quercusrobur]

Heres an article wot i wrote about the cardboard classroom project at my daughter's school; http://www.gb0063551.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cardboard/