用公路廢料建房子
智慧人生
作者：By Emmannel Bellivean
A lot of us take the highway home every day， and our next homeowners actually did. They took 600，000 pounds of concrete and steel and recycled it into their very own home.
This is the leafy suburb of Lexington， but on one corner of this historic Boston suburb， you’ll find a home with an unusual past. It was built out of an old highway， but not just any old highway. This house was recycled from the leftovers of America’s costliest and most complex highway construction project. “The Big Dig，” as it was called， tore down a highway in downtown Boston and built a tunnel in its place. Paul and Cristina Pedini are civil engineers. Paul worked on the Big Dig.
Paul： We had been directed to remove pieces of the Big Dig on behalf of the state， and they suggested to us that we would put them in a landfill and they’d pay us to do it， and I suggested that maybe they give us the materials and save the money. We needed a house， so， put two and two together.
…and got six levels， a 1）sumptuous kitchen， a two-story living room， two bedrooms， a working studio， two bathrooms and a Japanese garden on top of the garage. In all， 4，200 ft2 of luxury supported by 30 steel beams and by 13 2）slabs of concrete 3）salvaged from the old interstate.
Paul： We get the people that just walk in and go“Wow！”， and they get it. And then there’s other people that walk in and shriek because they can’t believe that you leave pipes exposed and “What’s that cement up there， that concrete？” They’re horrified by it.