UEL students build community room at Haringey allotment
Posted on June 4th, 2010 by sustainability
UEL students on the MA Sustainability and Design course designed and built this community room for the White Hart Lane allotments in Haringey using recycled palettes and estate agent signs.
Here is a synopsis of the project and the sustainable design features that caught Footprint’s interest.
These maps show where all materials were sourced. Sixty five per cent of the building materials were reclaimed and/or recycled, largely acquired from building skips. Materials included paving, floorboards, pallets, plywood, chipboard, brick, railway sleepers, bamboo and glass. The main pallet material was delivered by the client; all other items were sourced within 10km of site. The project budget was £1500.
Drawings of modular wall construction:
Pallet design fully exploded
Wall A & B
Wall C & D
Exploded axo of bamboo screen frame
Axo
Structural Frame
Building on site
Estate agent signs used for the main roof were sourced around the Highbury & Islington area by bike, and then transported to the site by car.
Project Facilitators: Nick Newman & Georgia Laganakou with support from Sofie Pelsmakers
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Chris and comrades , well done on a great project, We would have loved yo have something like this when I worked in the Shanty towns in Peru.
Kerry