when i wrote about the WOBO, the bottle’s designer john habraken wrote me to tell of another up-cycling project he did in the seventies, this time using discarded industrial materials like oil drums and car parts to build buildings (see his image above). i drummed up some images of the proposed designs:
which reminds me of a few more recent proposals: the pioneers of container re-use, lot-ek‘s original container penthouse:
and rural studio‘s glass chapel made in part from re-used windhields:
