![]() He also proposes raising money for the project by selling waste plastic to factories. More than just a housing project: Earl has designed a business plan that will provide local people with not just housing, but new skills, jobs and community space.A sustainable material: Bamboo is an ideal material because it releases 35% more oxygen than trees and can be grown on poor quality land and harvested annually without leading to soil degradation. ![]() Innovative design: Clever elements include a tilted roof that captures rainwater and reduces heat gain, and elevated stilts that prevent floodwaters from entering the home.Quick and affordable: Because of the simple modular design and cheap materials, CUBO houses can be manufactured in a week, constructed in only 4 hours and at a cost of only £60 per sq/m.The material is both treated and laminated, meaning that its lifecycle is 10 times as long as normal bamboo. It is also environmentally friendly, with waste used as a resource (converted into, amongst other things, biochar). His proposal would see as many as 10,000 people housed by 2023.Įarl chose to use bamboo for CUBO’s construction, inspired by his grandparent’s rural bamboo house and its abundance in the region. ![]() The housing is both affordable (at just £60 per square metre) and fast to build (four hours per unit). To combat this epidemic of substandard living, Earl has designed a new type of modular housing that will be used to house the incoming worker population in the short term, before being applied to the rest of the city’s slum community.” These workers will join the four million Manilans – a third of the city’s current population – who live in abject slums. The city will soon be at breaking point, with an additional 2.5 million workers moving to the city in the next three years to work on the government’s infrastructure programme. “Manila is one of the fastest growing megacities in East Asia, with a population of 12 million people. The RICS release described Forlales’ rationale for creating CUBO: RICS Cities for our Future competition announced the win for Forlales on November 22.įorlales won over 11 other regional winners for his housing project designed to address the housing crisis in Manila’s urban slums. The 23-year-old Ateneo de Manila University graduate designed CUBO, a project to build new, low-cost and environmentally friendly housing units.įorlales will receive the £50,000 prize money to start work next year on making his design come to life.
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