Dumpster, sweet Dumpster: Artist turns waste receptacle into mini-home
Using a repurposed trash bin, Berkeley-based artist Gregory Kloehn creates Oscar the Grouch's dream home: A comfortable, one-room dwelling complete with hardwood flooring and stainless steel appliances.
I’m just trying to break down what the home can be. What is it? What the components are — what do you need? Is it toilets and a kitchen and a roof? Or is it location? Or is it a house that expresses yourself? I don't know. I think for everyone it's a little bit different. But for me, I'm just trying to deconstruct what a home can be — how can you turn different objects into a home — and see if I can put everything in that a home has inside of a Dumpster, and if I can make it nice enough where perhaps someone would like to live in it.
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I can see this being very helpful to the homeless in large cities... a great idea!
I guess this guy could call it his "dumpster dive".
We recently saw two shipping containers turned into a coffee house while on a bit of a summer adventure. This does seem more art project than housing though.
People have been doing that for many decades. Its especially popular as temporary offices and for small businesses like coffee shops that lease space in parking lots and want the ability to pick up and move when a better location/price comes around.
However go to the port and look at purchasing a used container, after you get done with modifying it you really haven't saved over the cost of framing a building with lumber so really the reason is more for being able to move around than to save.... More
How Diogenes.
Most dumpsters are built to minimal standards. Cutting holes for access and ventilation would seriously weaken them. Many are designed to drain out rain water, not exclude it in the first place. And that is assuming that said dumpster has not been used. Plastic and steel will both absorb odors and hold them quite some time. This is fine as an artistic statement, not general use.
wow....I don't even know where to begin-just about every single thing you said is incorrect.
For starters dumpsters, like TEU's, are built to much higher standards than any residential structure (in terms of compressive load bearing capacity and resistance to lateral loads).
Second- of the three existing uniform codes and/or regulations that cover their construction in the USA, all of them require that they *not* leak (none allow for rainwater to "drain out"). A leaking dumpster is both.... More
