Creative Ideas for United Bottle
January 29, 2008 | Levent OZLER
The team of Instant Architects from Switzerland developed "United Bottle", a novel concept that implements used water bottles as a building material in crisis regions such as refugee camps.
The concept is to withdraw the PET bottles from their usual recycling cycle and to deliver them to a crisis region upon demand.
With this outstanding design concept Instant Architects have been particularly successful in the red dot award: design concept 2007.
They received the red dot: best of the best award as well as the LANXESS prize.
Worth 7,500 US$ and sponsored by the chemical corporation LANXESS, it was awarded for the first time and is to support the implementation of the design concept.
Now, Instant Architects wants you to find uses for United Bottle.
Both, the primary use - water bottle - and secondary use - building material - determine this bottle's design.
The final design of the bottle is reliant on understanding the processes of production as well as the processes of appropriation of users and re-users.
Better than a single designer, a network of potential users can formulate the design parameters.
Thus, INSTANT Architects invite you - producers and distributors, friends and colleagues, designers and architects - to test United Bottle.
The best input will be selected to be featured in the "United Bottle Participate!" exhibition at the Van Alen Institute, New York, in March/April 2008.
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