Must have heard of the cliché ‘Reduce, reuse and recycle’? Well, most of us have but few tend to give it a serious thought on daily basis. Yes, the odd occasion when we see a moving documentary on the state of things across the globe, we are moved. But then we, equally easily, move on to our daily routine after that. But Jan Jongert and Jeroen Bergsma of 2012Architects are not like many of us. They decided to make this a way of life by creating the Villa Welpeloo- A home that shouts out green in every sense of the word.
Built in Enschede, the Netherlands, this home does not look all that different when you first look at it. Sure, the wooden clad exterior is something of a beauty to behold, but just like Shakespeare once told you in highs school, the real beauty lies deep within. The home is made almost entirely from recycled and re-used waste and scrap material. If you include the interiors of this home then as much as 90% of it has been built from recycled material.
That is not a feat easy to achieve and it was no walk in the park for the pair when they started to plan for the home. They had to scope out their surrounding areas using Google Maps for abandoned warehouses so that they could acquire industrial waste.
The home’s steel framework was acquired from cast-off textile mill machinery, its wood from recycled old wooden planks, interior wardrobes from broken down billboards and even halogen lamp lighting from broken umbrellas. Villa Welpeloo seems more like a Phoenix, for the way it has emerged from the ashes!
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