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Cardboard Camera: The cardboard Camera House
The cardboard Camera House represents the reduction of technology and the simplification of needs.
By demonstrating that we are able to recycle 100% of the building components at extremely low cost, the cardboard Camera House is a direct challenge to the housing industry to reduce housing and environmental costs.
With the advent of hand cameras and dry plates at the close of the century, and with the perfection of enlargers and rapid printing paper, Piazzi Smyth's system of choosing a portion of the negative for the final print became regular practice. Instruction manuals and Camera magazines became full of a new kind of criticism; beginners were shown how their prints could be improved by cropping or trimming, and they were advised to try masking their proofs using two L-shaped cardboard Camera Except for isolated experiments like Piazzi Smyth's, th entire image formed by the Camera had previously bee so rigidly respected that daguerreotypes, tintypes, carte de-visite, and stereographs were all made in standard size.
Being extremely low cost and transportable, the cardboard Camera House could be used in a wide variety of applications.
You could live in one while your permanent house is being built or renovated, for emergency housing, or for short-term accommodation.
cardboard Camera is not a traditional building material, however the introduction of innovative bonding, cutting and structural techniques has provided the opportunity to consider this lightweight and recyclable material in a more creative fashion. |
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