Upcycle House Made of Textural Post-Consumer Materials
Two shipping containers are the foundation for a single-family home made almost entirely of reclaimed post-consumer materials. Imaginative reuse of waste products like aluminum soda cans, champagne corks and recycled glass have helped lower the Upcycle House’s carbon emissions by 86% compared to the average home.
Lendager Arkitekter of Denmark teamed up with Realdania Byg, a foundation that promotes innovation and good practice in architecture, to build a house that uses as many post-consumer waste materials as possible.
The house is a showcase of sustainable building principles with passive solar energy, natural ventilation, smart use of daylight and thermal mass in the form of a greenhouse clad in recycled bricks.