SECOND LIVES: AFTER BOTTLES (2018)
An experimental shelter prototype assembled from interlocking plastic bottles intended for water supply in the event of natural catastrophe. The installation is the product of an 18 person architecture design studio at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which functioned as a collaborative design-built think tank. The goal has been to use the patented interlocking bottles of Friendship Bottles LLC to construct and test prototypes for emergency shelters and transitional shelters for displaced populations under conditions of distress. Second Lives | After Bottles was originally built at the Rensselaer campus in Troy, NY and later transported to Industry City in Brooklyn New York, where it was displayed at the exhibition Wanted Design, as part of the NYC x Design Week between May 16-22, 2018.https://archinect.com/features/article/150072461/rensselaer-students-develop-a-disaster-architecture-from-water-bottles-and-shipping-materialshttps://archpaper.com/2018/06/experimental-disaster-shelter-turns-packaging-protection/#gallery-0-slide-0
