Housing Made Of Recycled Pallets

HDR Architecture has created a temporary exhibition that explores sustainable housing alternatives and personal power generation. They’ve constructed a temporary living structure built entirely out of wooden shipping pallets. These pallets are found all over the world, making this a solution that could be easily duplicated. It’s also human powered. Visitors can ride a bike which generates 125-200 watts to run the LED lights inside the house. This experiment makes great use of a material that many times is thrown in the trash.

Jetson Green has the statistics:

It’s estimated that there are about 2 BILLION ordinary unit load pallets in circulation globally, and about two-thirds of these are only used once. It’s further estimated that U.S. companies throw away roughly 4 billion board feet of wood pallets every year. Pretty crazy, I know.

[via Jetson Green]