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Ghetto2Garden is a Sustainable Animal Rehabilitation Center Made from Recycled Materials
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Based in the Dominican Republic, Colectivo Revark brings together designers and architects for experimental architecture projects that seek to spark social change. The Ghetto2Garden (Del Barrio al Jardin) project appeals to these designers’ compassion and architectural sensibilities, challenging them to create a nurturing structure from recycled materials on small budget.
The project’s goal is to help 50 animals that have suffered abuse and negligence from their human owners. Finding the current animal rehabilitation center to be inappropriate (it’s located in an area of high crime, unsuitable for animals’ needs, high costs for renting the space), the group designed the self-sustainable shelter.
Empty plastic cube tanks are upcycled into cozy rooms for each of the animals, which are arranged on multi-level floors, accessible by ramps. The frame structure is made from disused shipping pallets and plywood. Colectivo Revark also plans to keep the shelter as green as possible, installing a rain harvesting system, a small wind turbine on the roof, a solar generator, and a biodigester for organic waste recycling.
The owner and caretaker will even have their own shipping container homes on the site, with green roofs, a composting toilet and organic garden. The center will not only help mistreated animals, but it will also provide a blueprint for sustainable architecture in the Dominican Republic.
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Architecture group Colectivo Revark and designer Tomás De Santis have banded together to create a safe haven for Santo Domingo’s abused animals, made almost entirely from recycled materials. Called Ghetto2Garden, the group will collect disused used a
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Based in the Dominican Republic, Colectivo Revark brings together designers and architects for experimental architecture projects that incite social change.
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The Ghetto2Garden (Del Barrio al Jardin) project appeals to these designers compassion and architectural sensibilities, giving a challenge to create a structure of nurture on little budget and from recycled materials.
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The target for the project is not stray cats and dogs, but to help fifty animals that have suffered abuse and negligence from their human owners. Finding the current animal rehabilitation center to be inappropriate (location in an area of high crime,
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Empty plastic cube tanks are upcycled into cozy rooms for each of the animals, which are arranged on multi-level floors, accessible by ramps.
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The frame structure is made from disused shipping pallets and plywood. Colectivo Revark also plans to keep the shelter as green as possible, installing a rain harvesting system, a small wind turbine on the roof, a solar generator, and a biodigester for
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The owner and caretaker will even have their own shipping container homes on the site, with green roofs, a compost toilet and organic garden. The idyllic and compassionate center would not only help mistreated animals, but be an inspiration for sustainable architecture in the Dominican Republic.
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