A SchoolHouse Built Using Newspapers

We have seen houses constructed using straw, bamboo, shipping containers? But how about a house made from newspapers?

John Lamorie and his wife Shelly Wu set about this task using 1,000 kg of newspapers collected from students who would turn them over for points in class.

The eco-conscious couple took nearly a year to make their 75 sq-meter schoolhouse dream into reality. They converted the newspaper into building material by feeding it through a homemade blender.

Lamorie built the blender using a truck bed and a lawnmower blade. Papercrete is what he calls the building material prepared by feeding newspapers, water and cement into the blender.

Papercrete that was patented back in 1928 but was not used for mainstream construction forms the backbone of his six-inch thick school walls. The walls have a silicon coating to withstand rain damages.

The next green initiative after the eco-friendly school is a paper-based restaurant.

Via: Artdaily