Vegetable Nursery House

The small nursery house was built for an organic vegetable farm as part of a programme supporting green urban habits. Besides raising seedlings, it gives farmers a place to rest and children a place to visit and learn.

Six square metres in area and 3.6 metres high, it is framed in bamboo and walled with about 2,000 recycled plastic bottles collected by students and the community. The bottle wall regulates light and temperature for the plants, and a tray on the roof gathers rainwater for watering.

Light enough to be moved as cultivation needs change, the house was first exhibited at a museum before being carried to the farm for use. The Vietnamese design team saw it as a model for building with recycled materials that others could repeat.