Looking at the images of this beautiful project, childhood games come to mind, when a simple box, with a few blankets and an old sheet, became a castle, a den, a fort, a shop! The idea was to have our own thing / house, which gave a sense of protection and which could be built anywhere, transforming in a single stroke – of fantasy – into anything. It didn’t have to be beautiful, solid, perfect, on the contrary! The minimum was enough, that is, space for one or two children and standing, nothing more.
Cardboard house and makeshift tent, even under the table, were then replaced by the usual marketing mechanisms in plastic houses, decorated tents, toy shelters that, despite price and accessories, could not even remotely emulate the charm of something built with our hands. A bit like when we buy the house cat a padded and embroidered kennel, and it goes to sleep in the shopping carton… you know
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And only certain HOUSES have a charm of their own, which does not depend only on the number of square meters and the luxury of the furnishings. As for a tree house, another dominant theme in the imagination of children who see them in films and hardly manage to have one, even the cardboard house was chosen by architects and designers to raise the level of planning and construction. We have seen tree houses that are the envy of the most beautiful residences of the “good retreat”, that is places where you can find peace and inner balance (or simply stay a little quiet), even available in the form of hotels and B & Bs.
Today, however, we find a cardboard house that has nothing to envy to certain prefabricated buildings, if not even to a “real” brick house. A house that, if it had existed at the time of the tale of the 3 little pigs, surely would have represented an option. Because this house is resistant, ecological, durable, solid, beautiful inside and out. It can be assembled in modules, so you can design your own environment by choosing it for size and equipment. The floor area of ​​each module is 5 square meters and can be used for the various areas of the house: from the entrance to the bedroom, from the kitchen to the bathroom, from the closet to the living room.
The Wikkelhouse can be used in many ways and in any environment: in the middle of nature or in the city, but also on the terrace of a skyscraper or in a courtyard; it can be an (elegant) storage room for tools, a bungalow for holidays, a houseboat resting on a special platform, and even a traveling office… and finally as a home equipped with every comfort, including the suggestive ends in glass or wood.
Finally, among the most important qualities, eco-sustainability and the possibility of recycling the materials used.
Well, before moving on to the technical description, we are sure that you too are thinking, beyond the budget, where you could have a Wikkelhouse set up: in the grandparents’ garden so the kids would finally have a good reason to break away from the tablet.
Or in that small piece of land that you have never been able to enjoy
. And if it were instead in that remote campsite in the middle of nature, where you could finally enjoy a slightly different holiday
Maybe you will find the way. The technical sheet
. Name: Wikkelhouse, which in Dutch more or less means “packed house” or “wrapped house”: https://www.wikkelhouse.com/
. Manufacturing company: https://www.fictionfactory.nl/
. Base module dimensions: 4.5 meters long x 1.2 meters wide x 3.5 meters high.
. Weight for each module: 500 kg.
. Materials: 24 layers of high quality corrugated cardboard, tubular metal structure, wooden panels and strips, breathable rain resistant film, eco-friendly bonding glue; the cardboard is formed by a special mold.
. Construction time: a maximum of two days, no foundations needed.
. Estimated duration: in normal weather conditions, we start from 50 years.
. What it contains: depending on the modules you can have an entrance, bathroom, kitchen, living room, bedroom, etc.
. What is not included: furniture, transport and assembly.
. Cost: starting from 25,000.00 euros, according to the number of modules.
. Where it is sold to date: The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, United Kingdom and Denmark.
Another small cardboard house was seen on the canals of Milan this summer, when the Austrian tourism body set up one to promote itself: a temporary zero-impact installation to tell the story of Tyrol, Carinthia and the city of Salzburg through furniture and design objects all in cardboard. It certainly does not have the resistance and research of a Wikkelhouse, but it has the common denominator of ecology and awareness against waste and pollution. The cardboard, moreover, is not new to experiments in terms of furniture: chairs, tables, containers, drawers, bookcases and even sofas and armchairs have already been made with excellent results in terms of utility and beauty. And don’t think that these are only minimalist and modern models, there are also objects of classic cut, revisited in a modern way through the use of packaging materials, corrugated cardboard, coupled cardboard, etc. All furnishing accessories that certainly do not have problems of resistance and solidity because the cardboard, which not surprisingly is used to protect and transport goods of all kinds, is at the same time light and structured, thanks to its internal honeycomb core. Bee. And if the classic brown color does not convince you, it can easily be paired with papers of all kinds, to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version. use of packaging materials, corrugated cardboard, coupled cardboard, etc. All furnishing accessories that certainly do not have problems of resistance and solidity because the cardboard, which not surprisingly is used to protect and transport goods of all kinds, is at the same time light and structured, thanks to its internal honeycomb core. Bee. And if the classic brown color does not convince you, it can easily be paired with papers of all kinds, to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version. use of packaging materials, corrugated cardboard, coupled cardboard, etc. All furnishing accessories that certainly do not have problems of resistance and solidity because the cardboard, which not surprisingly is used to protect and transport goods of all kinds, is at the same time light and structured, thanks to its internal honeycomb core. Bee. And if the classic brown color does not convince you, it can easily be paired with papers of all kinds, to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version. All furnishing accessories that certainly do not have problems of resistance and solidity because the cardboard, which not surprisingly is used to protect and transport goods of all kinds, is at the same time light and structured, thanks to its internal honeycomb core. Bee. And if the classic brown color does not convince you, it can easily be paired with papers of all kinds, to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version. All furnishing accessories that certainly do not have problems of resistance and solidity because the cardboard, which not surprisingly is used to protect and transport goods of all kinds, is at the same time light and structured, thanks to its internal honeycomb core. Bee. And if the classic brown color does not convince you, it can easily be paired with papers of all kinds, to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version. which is not by chance used to protect and transport goods of all kinds, and at the same time light and structured, thanks to its internal honeycomb core. And if the classic brown color does not convince you, it can easily be paired with papers of all kinds, to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version. which is not by chance used to protect and transport goods of all kinds, and at the same time light and structured, thanks to its internal honeycomb core. And if the classic brown color does not convince you, it can easily be paired with papers of all kinds, to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version. to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version. to give free rein to creativity and renew a coffee table, a stool, a small piece of furniture or the entire bookcase year after year. What then, if you think that the books are made of paper, it is more than logical to house them in a piece of furniture built with the same material, but in the “big brother” version.
