Waste House 58-67 Grand Parade Brighton BN2 OJY

The Waste House was conceived by local sustainable architect, Duncan Baker Brown of BBM Sustainable Design Ltd working with founder of recycling website FREEGLE UK, Cat Fletcher. The premise was simple; 'there is no such thing as waste: just stuff in the wrong place'. For every five houses built enough material to build another is thrown away: why not try to build a house purely out of waste?

The Waste House is built on the University of Brighton's Faculty of Arts site, and is co-designed by Duncan's undergraduate architecture students, overseen by constructors The Mears Group and built by apprentice construction students from City College, Brighton & Hove.

Clad in recycled carpet tiles with walls filled with experimental insulating mixes of old cassettes, toothbrushes and wallpaper, the building is surprisingly elegant. Thermal performance will be monitored by Brighton University's Faculty of Science & Engineering.

The house will remain an evolving project and centre promoting recycling and waste reduction.

BUSES Any bus to Old Steine or St Peter’s Church
TRAIN Brighton (15 min walk)

The Waste House is accessed from the corner of William Street
and Grand Parade MEWS BN2 9RU.