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Build a House Out of Recycled Cardboard

Posted by michael on from the no-smoking dept.

Uosdwis writes "Well for a better environmental option to a new house that is affordable, "low cost". Australia architects Stutchbury and Pape have created a house out of recycled cardboard, Velcro, nylon wing nuts and tape. Also , most of the house is recyclable too. It can be built in six hours by two people and can be transportable in a light commercial vehicle. Viva homeownership!" We had a story a few years about a school built out of cardboard.

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  1. Blah screw cardboard!!! by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I prefer paper!!! omg lol ror wtf bbq hahahah

    Oh, and by the way, I can just imagine the SLOGAN:

    "Cardboard houses: Not just for homeless anymore!"

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    1. Re:Blah screw cardboard!!! by icepick72 · · Score: 4, Funny
      made from paper pulp and recycled PET

      I wondered where all the animals went in that picture.

  2. uh oh by Frogmum · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd watch where I spilled fluids.

    1. Re:uh oh by mabinogi · · Score: 4, Funny

      > although I can almost guarantee they won't take off.

      except in a strong wind!

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  3. Wait by The_Mystic_For_Real · · Score: 2, Funny
    With oil at $50 a barrel, someone should do a TCO taking into account the cost of heating.

    I shudder to think what the smell would be like if a toilet overflows.

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    1. Re:Wait by AchilleTalon · · Score: 3, Funny
      It has heating built-in, you don't need oil anymore, just a match...

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  4. Obvious... by MagicDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step 1 - Get laid off from job, live in cardboard box on street.

    Step 2 - Convince media that this is the future of housing materials.

    Step 3 - Profit!

  5. Building equity in the Bay Area by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Hello, I'd like to order ten plain cheeze pizzas..."

  6. Aww man! by suso · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why didn't this article come out yesterday?

    I just took all my cardboard to the recycling center. There was a lot of it too. I could have at least build the first floor.

  7. Ironic future? by wcitechnologies · · Score: 4, Funny
    Years from now when everybody uses cardboard to build their houses, all of the stone and brick ones will be torn down and turned into rubble.

    High society will live in elegant, custom constructed cardboard houses, and people who are down on their luck will be found, living in alleys in shitty brick houses.

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  8. Australia architects?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Australia architects Stutchbury and Pape...

    So are they colleagues of Slartibarfast?

  9. The real beauty of this house by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny

    is in the use of duct tape to hold everything together. It may be hard to heat, but at least it is terrorist-proof!

  10. Re:Hah! by metlin · · Score: 2, Funny

    > You make it sound like getting stoned is a bad thing!

    No, but getting burnt is :-)

  11. short-term == until the next time it rains??? by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 2, Funny

    At a purchase price of just $35,000 this is a genuine short-term housing option that could be used in a variety of applications.

    Uh, "short-term", as in, "until the next time it rains"???

  12. They huffed and they puffed... by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wondered where all the animals went in that picture.

    ...and they BLEW the house down!

  13. Re:Politics of poverty by j0d3r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Laos? Somehow I don't think adobe would work well in a rice paddy.