#Multihabitar works

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This ashram located in Chintamani is an educational center for children and adolescents living in rural areas.

When Mulihabitar went to spend a couple of days in this environment, the idea of carrying out a workshop in Chintamani by reusing wasted materials came up!

Improvisation. It was about that. The challenge was designing from what we had. This is one of the keys of reusing materials, the design process will always be developed in a completely different way. Apparently, they only had two or three little things that we could use: plastic bottles and a pair of cutters. The same night we arrived, we went to search for some material in a room full of big pots with dry tamarind where we also could find some cardboard: "Oh Cardboard, be always with us". Solved. "How big are the boxes? Let's do something simple. The main thing is that the capacity of the material to be transformed is understood. From the trash to the livingroom! "

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Multihabitar was invited to carry out a workshop at the University of Bangalore with the last year students of Architecture. They were interested in learning the process of building the Cardboard Sofa<Xm and we were very glad to have been asked for that experience, so, undoubtedly, we accepted it.

Don't forget to check the video of the process!

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MULTIHABITAT INDIA is a collaborative project focused on construction and housing improving in informal settlements by using local materials and working together with the people who inhabit it.

The aim of MultiHábitat India is to improve the habitability conditions of people who live informal settlements in Bangalore, and try to improve also other people’s conditions through all the knowledge created, either at another time or in another place. The work is being carried out, through the collaboration between Multihabitar, Arquitectura Se Mueve and NGO Grace.

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Multihabitar is a team of people dedicated to the development of projects and collaborative processes of (re) building the environment and the ways of inhabiting the spaces. Multihabitar is constituted as an association and as a partner in the Cooperative Society Actyva.

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LA BIXA

This dry toilet was designed and built with the idea of creating a living element that became part of the canyon landscape Algendar, Menorca.

If you are part of a small group of lucky people who has ever visited this place you will understand why it is considered one of the most important ravines of the island from the point of natural and cultural, that is why we put special care in choosing their exact location, in the choice of the materials and the construction process.

The bathroom is understood as an active agent of the landscape because besides it is part of it and is created from natural materials, it is a core of compost production and serves to fertilize their land (lands which in turn feed the inhabitants, thus closing the cycle in which waste are understood as fertilizer or food for the soil of the allotment).

Multihabitar project

Team: Ana Enguita, Paula Ferrando, Patricia Jiménez           

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Weaving and reed works

Multihabitar research project

Some time ago we became interested in Mediterranean reed (cane) as a construction material and we learned some of the techniques in different workshops. Since then we have sought other ways to build using this material, which is so common in the (spanish) Levant by their abundance and accessibility. While we research other construction techniques with grasses such as bamboo, one of our main investigations was focused on developing a Mediterranean cane module covered with mud. To do this we built this weaving loom that streamlines the reeds weave and helps us to imagine new modules. We did it thanks to the knowledge of Pepe Cabrera, a reed artisan. We have created the following reed pergola to generate a shadow in a courtyard of a house.  

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Quilombo stool

Multihabitar project

At the request of "Patio Quilombo" art gallery, we designed the furniture. One of the furniture is the following stool. It's called the Quilombo stool. We organized a workshop to create the stool and share the knowledge of weaving and steel works.

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Colón 36 Doblao, Castuera (Badajoz, Spain)

Multihabitar project

Team:  

   Architects: Jose Mendoza Milara y Sergio Ceballos de la Torre. 

   Collaborators: Ana Enguita, María G. Javaloyes, Patricia Jimenez L��pez.

This is the architecture space created as a result of Deconstruction Workshop + Reuse = 0 Waste, in which during a month, 13 people (2 master builders and 11 trainees, most architects) have been worked. All of them were building in a new and unconventional process to create architecture.

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