The average life of a Refugee camp is 7 years, with some exceeding beyond 50 years. There is a need for an alternative shelter to the typical tent solution that can transform a temporary living condition into a permanent home. Pallet House by I-Beam Design, was conceived as a transitional shelter for returning Refugees. I-Beam-Design, Suzan Wines, Azin Valy, New York, NY
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VERY COOL !!
@rubadux the whole reasoning behind why shipping containers are being used, i agree totally. Make a nice fort or paintball cover for the kids haha
better off building from fire resistant petrol
better off building from fire resistant petrol
It is soooooo pretty however it seems rather impractical as a tiny home or a green house or a shed, but as an art project it is magnificent. I really love the overall design and esthetics. Also the builder displayed a very clever use of materials. It is a job well done despite that one flaw of the use of space.
Could have built a much more efficient and functional structure by disassembling the pallets and recycling the wood and nails…
Nice place of solitude.
In Due Time<3
Cool Idea, cheap way to make the kids a great play house.
please have a look into earthbag construction much safer and only requires the bags a shovel and some barbed wire to secure one row to the other
I wouldn’t be so critical of this idea. I think it is very important to execute many small projects using all kinds of otherwise discarded materials and sharing those ideas with others. This how meaningful solutions are generated. Even better ideas can emerge from these small experiments. In disaster situations, materials, building expertise, and logistics can vary greatly. There can probably be no one single solution that works in all situations. Thank you for sharing this.
Makes a great garden house?
It will be a rotted wooden fence in 10 years
Once on a deployment to Yugoslavia, we stayed in small metal conex containers that were very secure, water tight, and comfortable. We didn’t need a team of engineers to build them on-site, they just trucked them to the location and dropped them off. Can you imagine the small army of workers they’d need to assemble those pallet shacks for thousands of people? And most of the pallets I’ve seen are junk. Typical university types with big ideas and no common sense.
Ide live in one of those
Why would they have to be quakeproof necessarily? Most refugees are there for either political reasons or famine or politically induced famine or just plain war, not earth quakes.
what is the other material…plastic?
@deborahbeatty that well*
“You Know You Mite Be A Redneck”,.. when you are actually thinking about building one of these,… 0_0
@gtq838 There’s a pallet factory nearby that makes them that good.
Now set the sombitch on fire
Beautiful! I’m going to stick one overmy use-less swimming pool
Design goes exactly with design of my eco house. Thanks for this.
That’s a pretty cool idea. And once put together would be a pretty sturdy house I would think especially if its made using the heavier pallets that use hard wood.
@teknotoast oh, well, so it is a 1:1 design study (model, or dummy), in which stage and case it is acceptable that it doesn’t actually work, and not a prototype, which I think of as a structure that already works under realistic conditions. — In my opinion, functionality supersedes cool in design. Have you ever seen elderly people struggling with a 70s handrail like this: prestigestairs . com/Images/crap.jpg ?
@TWPAirsoft lol, for real, the best pallets i’ve seen in a long time. looks like they actually made the pallet themselves.