After boats, we are now building tiny houses from waste plastic! And (scrap) wood. And waste textiles.
Living at 25 square metres, in a house entirely made from waste. Modular houses for the social housing domain, made for people who don’t stand a chance in the current housing market. Temporary houses to use temporary available land. And made in collaboration with (among others) people with a distance to the job market.
We’re working so hard to make this possible in our C2A Homes factory! After the boats from waste plastic and in line with our mission – ‘Let everyone discover, throwing away is a waste!’ – we started a new experiment last september: building houses from waste.
But although this is an experiment, the houses are definitely designed in accordance with the building code and therefore real alternatives for other forms of temporary homes. Because we want our discoveries with waste to make real impact and offer real solutions for society. With these houses we combine three different social issues: the waste problem, housing shortage, and a big unused labor potential of people who are now at the sidelines of the labor market.
In total we will build 16 houses for Het Grootslag, a local social housing corporation. At the moment the team is working hard to finish the first couple of pilot homes. The news station NH Nieuws shot an item about those (in Dutch). At the beginning of the 2022 we want to have the first houses ready. Stay tuned!
