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| Gregory Kloehn Turns Dumpsters Into Tiny Homes | |
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| Liquid Sky | May 8 2014, 07:36 PM Post #1 |
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Gregory Kloehn Turns Dumpsters Into Tiny Homes By Kaushik Thursday, May 08, 2014 Art n Design No comments California-based artist Gregory Kloehn is using his creativity and construction skills to build tiny homes for the city’s homeless out of recycled and reclaimed materials found on the street. Kloehn takes regular old dumpsters, with a few signs of wear and tear, and installs the essentials including a bed, stoves, sinks and storage shelves, to turn them into cramped but habitable shelters for those living on the streets. To prove his dumpster homes are fit to live, the artist has actually lived in one that he built for himself, and fitted with such conveniences as granite counter topped kitchen, a microwave, a mini-stove, a fridge, cushioned sofa and even a loo. ![]() By enlisting the help of “imaginative people”, Gregory Kloehn began his Homeless Homes Project to provide sturdy, innovative and mobile shelters for the homeless. Kloehn's little homes are about the size of a sofa, but they come with a pitched roof to keep out the rain and wheels so recipients can roll them around town. Kloehn and his little group of volunteers comb through heaps of illegally dumped trash, commercial waste and excess household items piled in alleyways and discarded throughout the city, and upcycles the raw materials into walls, roofs, doors, windows, wheels and locks. A discarded washing machine door was repurposed into a window, and pizza delivery bags became materials for insulation. So far Kloehn has built 10 tiny houses, some of which have already found tenants. Kloehn became inspired by the small home environmental movement, when he started making fully functioning houses out of shipping containers. Before that, he was making sculptures. But soon he got tired peddling them to rich people, while the sculptures accomplish nothing by themselves. “It just sits there,” he said. "I kind of think if you're putting so much effort into something it would be nice if it did something." Kloehn is a now a full-time home builder, which he makes out of shipping containers and sells them around Brooklyn. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| Liquid Sky | May 8 2014, 07:36 PM Post #2 |
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Edited by Liquid Sky, May 8 2014, 07:41 PM.
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| Liquid Sky | May 8 2014, 07:37 PM Post #3 |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/05/gregory-kloehn-turns-dumpsters-into.html Edited by Liquid Sky, May 8 2014, 07:47 PM.
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| silly93 | May 8 2014, 08:26 PM Post #4 |
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I was watching my local news channel, and a person was doing something exactly like this. But he is planning to live in it for a whole year to proave a point about how we can all live in smaller spaces. The transformations of the tiny homes is pretty awesome. I'd like to buy one, one day. Good thread Liquid Sky. :highfive. |
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| AquarianLove | May 8 2014, 09:17 PM Post #5 |
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*Tear drop falling* Congrats to Gregory with helping the homeless have a place to lay their head. Warms my heart knowing we have a few good people in the world who are willing to help others. |
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| silly93 | May 9 2014, 12:18 PM Post #6 |
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![]() I would buy both of these, however the one to right is okay to me. But the inside of it is very well designed. ![]() I don't know why I'm so drown to it.
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