The detail of the opening of the house
The roof tiles are made of the metal boxes cut into small pieces
The columns are reinforce concrete with the metal bins as stay-in-place molds
The owner of the house was a man in his 40s, who never built anything in his life before. This is not quite the traditional house that we associate with vernacular architecture. But it does the description of ‘architecture without architects’, and in some ways more interesting than many of the neo-vernacular style housing that we trained-architects design.
Rachaporn describes the garbage house as an example of ‘contemporary vernacular architecture’.
Source: Rachaporn Choochuey's Blog - Phi Phi Design Workshop
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2 comments:
This garbage house is great, what a determined person, Is he still alive and is he going to complete? I would love to finish a place like this and live in it, Well maybe not so near a dump, buy if that is what you have to do you live there. Good article.
Kyle
I'll go back to where I got this story from: an architect based in Thailand. The pictures were taken 5 years ago.The house should be finished by now! Time for an update!
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