[realdania byg] is a Danish foundation dedicated to promoting innovation

and good practices in the field of architecture.

It has jointly developed

and built a single family residence with the builder [lendager architects],

which is a container house built of processed recycled materials,

called [upcycle house], and conveys

the principle of upgrading with obvious and clear examples.

[upcycle house] is part of a large-scale development project [minico2 houses].

Different independent houses are used to

 illustrate different aspects of reducing CO2 emissions.

The construction of [upcycle house] uses a large number of recycled materials,

which are already part of the cycle.

 Therefore, when they are produced as new materials,

they will no longer produce new carbon dioxide,

which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions,

protect the climate, and use the world's resources in a more sustainable way.

This recycled container house is located in nyburg, Denmark.

The architect is lendager arkitekter,

and its use area is 129 square meters.

During construction, two 40 foot shipping containers

were used and insulated externally,

 so the original appearance of the container could not be seen.

Most of the building materials of houses are recycled,

so that garbage or useless materials can be recycled

and recycled into new building materials with higher use value.

The basic structure of [upcycle house] is two second-hand containers,

which are pulled far away,

so that the floor plan of the house becomes approximately square.

The container house built to meet all the needs of the family

has a total of 129 square meters of living space.

Inside the house, there is a large living room connecting the kitchen,

 three small rooms, a bedroom, bathroom,

equipment room and passive cooling room.

The basic furniture in the house uses recycled steel screw piles,

the panel facade coating is made of recycled paper and biological resin,

and the aluminum panel facade coating is made of

aluminum recycled from beer and soda cans.

 In addition, there is a large greenhouse next to the kitchen and a large terrace facing south.

[upcycle house] committed to improving the recycling of skills,

how to save resources and carbon dioxide emissions during the construction of houses.

Upgrading means the best recycling and refining of waste products.

You can see that the balcony siding is composed of

composite boards made of plastic and wood waste,

and the insulation materials on the ground

and walls are treated newsprint particles,

 which are glue free OSB floors made of more than

 wood produced by furniture manufacturers.

The kitchen is laid with cork floor,

which is full of design sense and clean and renewable.

The glass of the large greenhouse next to

the kitchen is recycled from a closed school.

This facade has three floors.

The glass is placed outside the facade and sealed

between the glass and the facade with rubber sealing tape.

Such a pane does not need to have a specific size,

 but only needs to be larger than the window hole.

Recycled plastics and wood chips can be seen everywhere in the house,

 and recycled brick coatings can be seen on the wooden platform.

Pictures courtesy of  Polfoto