Scraphouse was blitz-built using only scrap and salvaged materials. Watch trailer now.
ScrapHouse was a temporary demonstration home, built
entirely of salvaged material on Civic Center Plaza adjacent to San Francisco
City Hall.
Challenge 1: Design Rethinking
a standard single-family home floor plan, the ScrapHouse Design Team generated
an elegant design solution, inspired by the abundance of scrap material. Every
material, from the foundation to the front door, was reclaimed and
re-used.
Challenge 2: Search Finding
appropriate innovative materials was the next challenge. The team spent three
weeks scouring the Bay Area for building materials, furnishings and finishes;
purchasing new only hardware and fasteners. Some salvaged materials were re-used
for their intended purpose, while others were reincarnated in unusual
ways.
Challenge 3: Build The
ScrapHouse team’s final challenge was a two-week blitz build, kicking off the
last week of May and concluding with the public opening of the house itself on
June 2, 2005.
With walls sheathed with everything from street signs and shower
doors, ScrapHouse drew tens of thousands of passersby. ScrapHouse illustrated
the possibilities—as well as the challenges—of green building, recycling, and
reuse.
Over the course of just six weeks, a team of volunteers scoured
Bay Area dumps and scrap yards. A group of architects, landscape architects,
lighting specialists, and metal fabricators repurposed the materials, giving
them new life. Solid core doors recovered from a school construction project
became an interesting floor material. Outdated phone books became a wonderfully
textured insulating wall. Retired firehoses from the San Francisco Fire
Department were deployed as wall paneling, dramatically transforming a double
height living space.
And when it was all said and done, "scrap" had taken on a whole
new meaning.
See Director Anna Fitch give a walkthrough of the ScrapHouse to
the folks of TurnHere
Scraphouse:
San Francisco was conceived by Anna Fitch and Chicken John Directed by
Anna Fitch Produced by Winton / duPont (www.wdfilms.com)
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