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
i think this is logical and observical
2 say its nce n doesnt he a hme ths well sad if he doesnt
My husband has been collecting the LONG pallets for a few months now.The company next door to my work gets siding in on them.They are in VERY good shape.My boss laughed at my husband when he was out there throwing them over the fence.The company said he could take all he wanted.When my boss found out he had tore them apart and built him a lil shop out of them he to started goin and taken the pallets. Wish more people would put their brains to work and do the same thing.Would save the landfills and the pocket books..
We even have enough to build the rafters for our house.:-) YEA!
Love it
The American Dream as we know it dies with the dwindling cheap oil in Saudi Arabia, where it was born, and mind bending sociological paradigm shifts creep over America and warp it into the twenty-first century, like an unwilling child, forced to finally grow up! The environmental issues we will face, when trying to survive without cheap oil will make us weep for our present foolishness, as we will be forced to eat tainted food, drink poisoned water, till salted fields, and shit in bags to get enough topsoil from humanure to plant a veggie garden beside our shanties to make up for the beautiful land we paved over.There are no free rides, and this generation and generations to come will pay for past sins. We have over-reached Mother natures tolerance using cheap oil and we are in for a comeuppance of enormous proportions - we will get our asses kicked hard and soon!
Have to agree with the fire hazard comment though - need an organizational way to prevent that from happening and make sure people understand risks. Tents burn all the time but they are still sold. Why should this be any different? No shame needed.
My hat is off to you Max! I work for a mission for the homeless and at least you care enough about this growing number of people in the US. Fortunately I am not on the street, but I did have a son that died on the streets of Portland and it would have been so wonderful to know that he had one of your “homes” to live under rather than out on the street in the rain, snow, sleet and mud. I thank you from the botoom of my heart that at your young age that you would be so brave and thoughtful to think of others. You are an outstanding young man!
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Are you seriously whining about how this house was built?
Don’t you have more important things to tackle, like say maybe going on a diet?
ManBearPig alert!!!!!
On a side note, I would have posted more politely but your little article reeks of snobbery so blah.