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Lucy Carpet House

  • Overview

    Info

    Mason’s Bend, AL
    2002
    Outreach Project
    Residential

  • Awards & Media

    Media
    The Cardboard Pod, The Lucy House, The Antioch Baptist Church
    Bauwelt | Magazine | Michael Strand | February 20, 2004

  • Project Team

    Ben Cannard, Phillip Crosscup, Kerry Larkin, Marie Richard, James Michael Tate, Keith Zawistowski, Floris Keverling Buisman

Sponsored by Interface, the world’s largest manufacturer of carpet tiles, the challenge was to use worn carpet tiles in the construction of a house for the Harris family. The house walls contain 72,000 individual stacked tiles held in compression by a heavy wooden ring-beam. The tiles were held in storage for 7 years to ensure they no longer off-gassed. The tower form contains a bedroom above and tornado shelter below.

The walls are built with 72,000 individually stacked tiles held in compression by a heavy wooden ring-beam
The tower form contains a bedroom above and tornado shelter below.
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