[Scpg] Seeking projects for new home design book "REDUX: Designs that Reveal, Recycle and Redefine".

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Hello ADPSR folks and others,
I’m seeking project submissions for a home design book I’m writing 
called REDUX: Designs that Reveal, Recycle and Redefine. It will be 
published in 2005 by Gibbs Smith, who also published my book, Good Green Homes.

I’m looking for examples of unique, visually appealing homes and 
residential objects made of old stuff that was destined for demolition or 
the dump. For example:

§   Commercial or industrial properties ingeniously adapted for 
residential use—not the standard warehouse-to-loft conversion but truly 
innovative adaptations that would make an architect or other design-savvy 
person stop in her tracks
§   Homes that have been inventively remodeled by peeling layers away, 
revealing the building’s original materials or hidden spatial potential
§   Rooms or whole houses built from surplus shipping containers, junked 
vehicles, water towers or other structures that weren’t originally 
intended as homes
§   Furnishings and finishes made from salvaged materials or from 
artifacts used in new contexts (old aircraft cockpits converted into 
chairs, discarded traffic signal lenses made into terrazzo counters, 
highway signs as exterior siding, and so on)
§   Residential landscapes and outdoor installations that make witty, 
innovative use of cast-off materials

REDUX will feature contemporary projects that are artistic, soulful and 
finely crafted. In particular, REDUX will showcase work by architects, 
designers, artists and builders who are committed to ethics as well as 
aesthetics, who put their creativity to work to help solve environmental 
and social problems, and who find inventive ways to use humble materials 
that others wouldn’t give a second glance.

What I’m not looking for are examples of recycling/reuse that are already 
in widespread practice, like antique furniture, vintage appliances or 
recycled plastic decking. Please note that for the most part, I’ll only 
be able to include projects for which professional-quality photographs 
already exist. I would be happy to hear from you about projects I should 
consider. You can email me at 
<mailto:jennifer at jenniferroberts.com>jennifer at jenniferroberts<mailto:jennifer at jenniferroberts.com>.com. 


With thanks,

Jennifer Roberts
Author, Good Green Homes
<http://www.goodgreenhomes.com/>http://www.goodgreenhomes<http://www.goodgreenhomes.com/>.com/ 

San Francisco, CA
tel/fax: 415.695.1721



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