Big Dig Bits Reused For Modern Massachusetts Manor
By Joe Wertz
Boston’s Big Dig has yielded tons of materials discarded by engineers adjusting to buried barriers and all manner of archeological and geological obstacles. For the Big Dig House, Cambridge architecture firm Single Speed Design came up with a concept that recycles and re-purposes materials from the ongoing highway project debacle. Roughly 600,000 pounds of discarded structural steel and concrete were salvaged from a dismantled section of the Interstate 93 highway and reused for the 3,400 square-foot Lexington home. The assembly of the home was pre-planned and coordinated with a pre-fab construction system. The materials, originally designed to standards far exceeding home construction codes, allowed the designers to add a rooftop garden and other features uncommon of typical residences. [via archdaily]
