The SodaBIB Project

<a href="http://www.sodabib.org/">The SodaBIB Project</a> is "a prototype project to reuse plastic water bottles to form a thatch roof -- to help people to create shelter from discarded materials." The design of SodaBIB (Soda-Bottle Interface Bracket), developed by professors and students at New York Institute of Technology (<a href="http://iris.nyit.edu/architecture/">NYIT</a>), consists of a custom shipping pallet that breaks down to serve as an armature for mounting empty water bottles. Therefore water bottles can be shipped to people and places in need, and then <i>everything</i> can be reused for shelter.<br /><br /><img alt="sodabib.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/sodabib.jpg" title="The SodaBIB Project" /><br /><br />The NYIT folks have already created a 5-foot-square prototype, but now they're aiming to build a barrel-vaulted mock-up on the Old Westbury campus. As is becoming the norm, Kickstarter is being used to help <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasonvannest/the-sodabib-project">fund the project</a>. A short video on the project is below, but much more information on SodaBIB can be found on <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasonvannest/the-sodabib-project">its Kickstarter page</a>.<br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasonvannest/the-sodabib-project/widget/video.html" width="640"> </iframe>

The SodaBIB Project

The SodaBIB Project is "a prototype project to reuse plastic water bottles to form a thatch roof -- to help people to create shelter f...

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