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fun medley: tubular building, self-recycling and ‘criminal’ snogging collected by xavier
- tubular building
A Japanese architect, Shigeru
Ban, specialises in incorporating recycled materials in his constructions.
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| Shigeru
Ban in front of his ‘paper’ bridge close to the Roman
Pont de Gard, Nîmes, France. Image source: France
24.com |
Interior
of Nomad Museum, New York City.
Photograph
by Gregory Colbert. |
Weight: 7.5 tonnes
number of tubes: 281
tube dimensions: 11.5 cm/4 ins diameter, 11.9 mm thick
steps: recycled paper, plastic
foundations: sand-packed wooden boxes |
Materials -
transport containers: 148
cardboard tubes: 34 feet tall
roof
panels: Vipersteel framework, PVC fabric
Wall height: 36 feet, roof peak: 54 feet |
Shigeru Ban developed his construction method “in 1994 Rwanda,
where genocidal civil wars had left much of the population homeless.
"The United Nations gave them only a plastic sheet, four by six
meters," said Ban. To create the frames, "the refugees had
to cut up trees by themselves. Over two million people became refugees
in Rwanda. They cut down all the trees. So the United Nations provided
aluminum pipe to stop the cutting of trees. But in Africa, aluminum
is a valuable material. So refugees sold all the aluminum for money,
then they cut the trees again." Ban showed the refugees how to
assemble the simple paper-tube-based shelters, a process he repeated
after earthquakes in Turkey in 1999 and India in 2001.” [Quoted
from lynnbecker.com]
Further
images of Shigeru Ban’s paper architecture.
- self-recycling
- darwin is out there waiting to get you
“A WOMAN almost died after becoming stuck in the tiny slot of
a recycling bin.
“The woman had apparently dropped off some clothes and then
changed her mind and tried to get them back.
“But despite being slightly built, she became trapped in the
slot with only her feet showing.”
But how do you “almost die”? Is this like almost becoming
pregnant?
- ‘criminal’
snogging
Safe distance camera monitoring being set off
by snoggers.
Don’t worry, it warns the jobsworths when they may get a good
show.
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