Tutors:

Jeroen Jonckheere (BE), Marie Vanderghote (BE), Hanne Vermeiren (BE), José Alfonso Ortiz Guzmán (CL)

Workshop description:

Nowadays sustainable buildings are a hot topic. Even the internet has a lot of ‘do it yourself’s for building a self sustainable house. We wondered if it really is that easy… As a challenge we want to realize one in two weeks with our participants, using a sea-container as a starting point. We would like to present an easy-made and quick solution. This contains an advanced design for creating a favorable atmosphere inside, the provision for water and electricity. Therefore we need to install a rainwater harvesting system, exploit solar and wind-energy and find an interesting way to insulate the container depending on the environment. We realize this is a big challenge, but we are convinced this makes the project even more interesting and all of us are sure that the participants will have an instructive two weeks, by making and learning more about self sustaining systems.

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