Architect Julien de Smedt is working with Norwegian startup Othalo to create a range of modular houses that will be constructed largely from recycled plastic.

Created by Othalo, in partnership with UN Habitat – the United Nations’ programme for sustainable urban development – the homes are designed to be a low-cost option for sub-Saharan Africa.

Using a patented system each house’s main structure and walls will be made from recycled plastic, with a sixty-square-metres Othalo house incorporating around eight tonnes of plastic waste.

建築師Julien de Smedt與挪威初創公司Othalo合作,創建了一系列模塊化房屋,這些房屋將主要由再生塑料製成。

由Othalo與聯合國人居署(聯合國可持續城市發展計劃)合作創建的房屋被設計為撒哈拉以南非洲的一種低成本選擇。

使用獲得專利的系統,每座房屋的主要結構和牆壁將由再生塑料製成,而60平方米的Othalo房屋將容納約8噸塑料廢物。

“The patent contains a loadbearing structure and a supportive and insulating structure,” Othalo founder Frank Cato Lahti told Dezeen.

“Both of these two structures can be made of 100 per cent recycled plastics.”

Othalo創始人弗蘭克·卡托·拉赫蒂(Frank Cato Lahti)告訴Dezeen:“該專利包含一個承重結構以及一個支撐和絕緣結構。”

“這兩種結構都可以由100%的再生塑料製成。”

Othalo and De Smedt, who designed the modular elements, envision the homes being constructed from plastic that is collected from near the building sites.

“We believe this is one of the ways to deal with a shortage of building materials in these areas of the world where there is an urgent need for housing,” said De Smedt.

“Just as cities are formed by buildings of wood, of concrete, clay, steel, they could very well contain a building constructed from plastic waste, as long as it’s done in a safe and sustainable way,” he added.

設計模塊化元素的Othalo和De Smedt設想,要使用從建築工地附近收集的塑料建造房屋。

De Smedt說:“我們認為,這是解決世界上這些急需住房的地區建築材料短缺的方法之一。”

他補充說:“只要城市是由木材,混凝土,粘土,鋼結構構成的,它們就很可能包含由塑料廢料建造的建築物,”

De Smedt said the team plans to host a number of creative collaborations in different locations, in order to create additional elements to supplement the base design and allow for regional adaptation.

For the initial designs, De Smedt looked to fast-growing cities such as Nairobi in Kenya.

“We started analysing the types of buildings people live in, what kind of jobs people have, and how houses are organised,” he said. “We looked at how neighbourhoods get formed, but also how people do business and interact between each other inside the community.”

De Smedt說,該團隊計劃在不同的地點舉辦許多創造性的合作,以創造更多元素來補充基本設計並允許區域適應。

對於最初的設計,De Smedt著眼於快速發展的城市,例如肯尼亞的內羅畢。

他說:“我們開始分析人們居住的建築物類型,人們從事的工作以及房屋的組織方式。” “我們研究了社區的形成方式,以及人們如何開展業務以及社區內部彼此之間的互動。”

The early designs for the houses feature a variety of interconnected covered spaces, loggias and terraces that provide sheltered outdoor space and add variety to the houses.

“Parts of this idea comes from the climate that allows outside life but also requires sun shading and ventilation,” De Smedt said.

“A lot of these conditions can be found in lively neighbourhoods around the world. They will serve as more specific references as the project develops in different contexts.”

房屋的早期設計具有各種相互連接的有蓋空間,涼廊和露台,可提供遮蔽的室外空間並增加房屋的多樣性。

De Smedt說:“這種想法的一部分來自允許外來生活的氣候,但也需要遮陽和通風。”

“在世界各地活躍的社區中都可以找到許多這樣的條件。隨著項目在不同背景下的發展,它們將作為更具體的參考。”

Othalo expects to start mass-producing the houses in early 2022 and believes that the system will allow the millions of tonnes of plastic waste to become useful building material.

“If you consider the amount of plastic waste worldwide, this could very well become an entirely new material resource to tap onto.”

“With today’s plastic waste, more than one billion houses can be built,” Othalo said.

It also aims to eventually expand its product line into temperature-controlled mobile storage units for food and medicine, as well as refugee shelters and larger modular buildings such as schools and hospitals.

“It became clear that the scope should expand beyond establishing living typologies,” De Smedt told Dezeen.

“It would need to integrate and enable local crafts and cultures and ultimately aim at the creation of diverse neighbourhoods rather than merely piling up individual units,” he continued.

“In a way the system is as much an enabler of urban conditions – the public spaces – as it is allowing volumes to interact – the buildings.”

A number of brands and designers are working on ways to use recycled plastic, including Magis, which launched a recycled plastic chair with Konstantin Gcric and Petit Pli, which has made face masks from recycled plastic bottles.

Othalo預計在2022年初開始批量生產房屋,並相信該系統將使數百萬噸的塑料廢料成為有用的建築材料。

“如果考慮到全球範圍內的塑料廢料量,這很可能會成為一種全新的材料資源。”

Othalo說:“利用當今的塑料廢料,可以建造十億多所房屋。”

它還計劃最終將其產品線擴展到用於食品和藥品的溫度控制的移動存儲單元,以及難民收容所和較大的模塊化建築物,例如學校和醫院。

De Smedt告訴Dezeen:“很明顯,範圍應超越建立活生生的類型。”

他繼續說:“它將需要整合和促進當地手工藝和文化,並最終旨在創建多樣化的社區,而不僅僅是堆積單個的單位。”

“從某種意義上說,該系統不僅可以使城市環境(公共空間)成為可能,而且還可以使建築相互互動。”

許多品牌和設計師都在研究使用再生塑料的方法,包括Magis,該公司與Konstantin Gcric和Petit Pli推出了再生塑料椅子,Petit Pli用再生塑料瓶製成了口罩。

FROM:https://www.dezeen.com/2020/10/16/julien-de-smedt-houses-recycled-plastic-othalo/

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