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University of Brighton

  • The Waste House constructed a the University Of Brighton employs waste materials sourced from domestic and construction sites (Photo: BBM)
    Architecture
    One man's garbage is another man's ... house?
    Can garbage be used as an eco-material to construct a house? Such is the intriguing premise behind the recently-completed Waste House project, which is believed by those involved to be the first permanent British building built almost solely from waste and recycled materials.