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Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne, Switzerland designed by Gigon & Guyer
The facades of the largely closed volume comprise a rainscreen of metal road signs. These are intended not only to reference the numerous modes of transport that are directed and regulated by such notices, but also to highlight the many localities that are connected via the road network. On the back facade, the signs are reverse mounted with the printed sides facing into the building. The architect explains that the signs are positioned for oncoming traffic, ie visitors arriving from the sides and front of the building, rather than the local residents situated at the rear. -- Architecture Today
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1,000 Recycled Doors, Seoul, South Korean designed by Choi Jeong-Hwa
1,000 recycled doors are enough for the South Korean architect Choi Jeong-Hwa to transform a dull ten-story building into a fresh-looking landmark. This ‘skyscraper’ in the center of the Korean capital Seoul has become a pixelated landmark, that tells the story of thousand people who once chose a fitting color for a door in their apartment. -- the Pop-Up City
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The Shwopping project, East London, UK
In an effort to recycle clothing and decrease waste fashion, department store Marks & Spencer launched ‘Shwopping’, a project that combines shopping and swapping. The fashion brand covered a couple of facades of buildings in hipster town East London with 10,000 pieces of unwanted apparel, resulting in a brilliant, colorful temporary installation that completely changes the face of the buildings and reminds us somehow of an amazing Korean skyscraper with a facade of re-used doors. -- the Pop-Up City
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Plywood house extension, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA designed by Richard Van Os Keuls
Richard Van Os Keuls has used flattened aluminum soda and beer cans as siding for his plywood house extension, after deciding conventional materials were too expensive.
Van Os Keuls, an architect from Silver Spring, Maryland, first got the idea of incorporating flattened aluminum cans into his trade after seeing a car drive over a discarded soda can. He thought to himself that it would make a pretty decent aluminum shingle, so he began building his own stash of old cans to experiment with, at a later time. That time came around when he finished the plywood extension on his house, and began looking for a cheap material to side it with.
The ingenious architect admits his idea of using aluminum cans has nothing to do with art or the environment, as he was simply looking for a cheap and durable alternative to conventional siding materials. -- LikePage
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Prefabricated Manifesto House, Chile designed by James and Mau Architects
James and Mau Architects came up with an original idea for a prefab home years ago, and the duo has created the “Manifesto House” out of sustainable materials and wooden pallets in a very successful attempt at being green. Built in Chile by Infiniski, this house is dedicated to a cleaner and greener future with the materials used. 85% of the house contains recycled, reused and eco-friendly materials: cork, iron, wood, aluminum, noble woods and eco-ceramics. The best part of it all? It only takes about 3 months to build! -- inthralld
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| Source: David Armentor archdaily.com |
Tulane Students Upcycle Traffic Signs into Shade Canopy , City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2013 designed by Tulane City Center
Tulane City Center and a team of Tulane architecture students worked together with the Lousiana Outdoor Outreach Program to design a shade structure made from traffic yield signs for a challenge course in City Park. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding tree canopy and the structure of the ropes course, the design team crafted a faceted, curving aluminum canopy suspended by steel cables with an earthen berm for seating below. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Quang Tran archDaily.com |
Vegan House, Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 2014 designed by Block Architects
The old windows were used as the main material to create a distinctive appearance. These windows have been used in Vietnam for a long time because of its ventilation. They are now rearranged into a new facade with different colors and cover the old facade, wrap it up to the rooftop and create a special attraction, as well as harmonizing with the ancientness of entire area. -- ArchDaily
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