12-year-old Makes Homeless Shelter from Trash
Well, this is a bit of fresh air, especially with tween news like Baby-Faced Boy Alfie Patten Is Dad At 13.
12-year-old Max Wallack stole the show at Design Squad’s Trash to Treasure contest with his “Home Dome.” The contest asked kids to repurpose trash into practical inventions.
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I wonder if the Home Dome gets an honorable LEED Certification?
The dome provides shelter for the homeless and is made from plastic, wire, packing peanuts, and flargstin. Pretty much, trash.
The trash-plex looks like a Mongolian yurt, and let Max walk away with $10,000 and a Dell laptop. He also got a trip to Boston out of it. But Max had this to say, “I don’t really care about the money. I care about helping people.”
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This isn’t his first big win. “When I was six,” Max said, “I won an invention contest that included a trip to Chicago. While there, I saw homeless people living on streets, and beneath highways and underpasses. I felt very sorry for these people, and ever since then, felt that my goal and obligation was to find a way to help them. My invention improves the living conditions for homeless people, refugees, or disaster victims by giving them easy-to-assemble shelter.”
Go Max! We all look forward to your future inventions.
Source and Photo: thedesignblog.org
Hmm…this won $10,000? The other inventions must not have been very good.
I cant wait to see these on the side of my road in LA! Great job!
Great concept! 30 years ago, my dad put us to work each afternoon, “pulling nails” out of free pallets he would bring home from work. He used the boards to frame our 4 bedroom, 2 story home. It is still as good as new, strong and build with love, and recycled brick and boards.
Good Job! I give you 2 thumbs up!
This is awesome!!!! I want to make one!!!
btw the crack about the doughnuts was totally uncalled for….what a douchebag yeah you joe smith
that is so so so so so awesome that someone my agge could do something loke that i think people will really like that
thank you
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you rock
sincerly,
br00ke
Great idea, but poor article. No mention of ANY of the basic how-to info on floor, foundation, insulation, etc.
Article would be much better if it had actual information.
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever had the displeasure to read.
Whether the material is up to code, flammable, new or used or recyclable is really irrelevant - at least the young man is considering others, and the company rewarding him is also - and they are rewarding his ingenuity. I applaud them both. Why don’t the naysayers come up with a better idea!
To Jeff Bearce, he posted on the 1st page, Are you serious? Use trash in landfills to build houses? Dude, you’re retarded.