Friday 23 May 2008

clothes house by MVRDV / casa per tutti at milan triennale

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in the atrium of the milan triennale 
 
 
'clothes house' by dutch architects MVRDV 
 
 
 
 
 
it’s made from second hand clothes packaged in plastic bags
 
 
make it right -
actor and activist brad pitt founded the MIR foundation (make it right
to begin to fill the need for affordable, sustainable houses of high design in order to try
to rebuild the 9th lower ward in new orleans.
 
MVRDV was invited by MIR to design prototype houses as part of revitalizing the neighborhood.
MVRDV developed 5 escape houses which are all lifted in a different way.
construction of the first houses is expected to start soon. 

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