Millions of people migrate ruining their future with a hope of a better life. Wood burning stoves, kerosene lamps and dirty water are partly to be blame.

This will be a social experiment that aims to achieve a win-win-win situation by mixing DIY architecture, engineering, art, and environmental ingenuity.

Creating a self-sufficient home out of New York City garbage and shipping containers in a remote location in Dominican Republic. This house will collect rainwater for drinking, electrical from wind and solar, human and animal waste for biogas, and food from the land

New York City offers an incredible amount of discards that can be use as is or transformed to create a comfortable home if not a whole community with most of what “comfort” means.

Hiring locals thus teaching and inspiring new alternative ways of improving their lifestyle in cheaper healthier and more environmentally friendly ways, hopefully creating a viral effect that will spread trough the community.

An ideal home could be built from a base of 3 to 7 shipping containers. Naturally these containers can store more than the necessary amount of materials needed for the construction of this home. The rest of the space will be use to store all this incredibly useful stuff that we often see in the New York streets and wonder, Why they are going to waste so easily? Children bikes, plumbing supplies, working computers, satellite dishes, electronics of all kinds and even vehicles extremely cheap school busses that can benefit a small agrarian underdeveloped community in unimaginable ways.

Millions of people migrate ruining their future with a hope of a better life. Wood burning stoves, kerosene lamps and dirty water are partly to be blame.

This will be a social experiment that aims to achieve a win-win-win situation by mixing DIY architecture, engineering, art, and environmental ingenuity.

Creating a self-sufficient home out of New York City garbage and shipping containers in a remote location in Dominican Republic. This house will collect rainwater for drinking, electrical from wind and solar, human and animal waste for biogas, and food from the land

New York City offers an incredible amount of discards that can be use as is or transformed to create a comfortable home if not a whole community with most of what “comfort” means.

Hiring locals thus teaching and inspiring new alternative ways of improving their lifestyle in cheaper healthier and more environmentally friendly ways, hopefully creating a viral effect that will spread trough the community.

An ideal home could be built from a base of 3 to 7 shipping containers. Naturally these containers can store more than the necessary amount of materials needed for the construction of this home. The rest of the space will be use to store all this incredibly useful stuff that we often see in the New York streets and wonder, Why they are going to waste so easily? Children bikes, plumbing supplies, working computers, satellite dishes, electronics of all kinds and even vehicles extremely cheap school busses that can benefit a small agrarian underdeveloped community in unimaginable ways.