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The Wall paper house offers cheap dry home for poor and displaced
Retailing for about $5,000 (£3,375), the Universal World House is supposed to brighten up Third World shantytowns and provide quick shelter for long-term refugees. Gerd Niemoeller, its inventor, says that the 36sq m paper house weighs barely 800kg (1,763lb) — lighter than a VW Golf. The basic material is resin-soaked cellulose recovered from recycled cardboard and newspapers. The interior of the prefabricated building panels resemble honeycombs; an air vacuum fills each of the units.
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Websites:
http://www.the-times.co.uk
Keywords: Housing
Subjects: Building, Domestic, Paper pulp and print, Drying / evaporation
