Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff

Dan Phillips has an ingenious way to reinvent old materials to build houses in an innovative and unorthodox way. For example he has used chicken eggs for a design on teh outside of a house by draining them and filling them with some sort of substance to keep them from rotting. He has also created stairs and a porch railing from old branches, a bathtub faucet from an old beer spicket, and a screen door as a sunroof/window type thing. He has a few different views as to how people today waste things. One: they have an idea in their heads as to what it SHOULD be and how it must be PERFECT. But Phillips concludes that repetition creates a pattern, therefore he repeats an odd architectural design, well then people will accept it as normal because its a pattern. Another view is if it is not perfect people will simply throw it away and not try to create something out of it. Phillips' creations make an ideal way to recycle old things in new ways.