CANStruction 2008
On Friday, September 5th, MBH Architects, Newport Beach participated in the first time ever in Orange County, CA CanStruction, an international community service project to feed the hungry. Architects, engineers, contractors, designers and students of such compete to design and build giant-sized structures made entirely out of canned foods.
The MBH team designed and then built in nine hours Sponge Bob’s Canapple House made of canned fruit, vegetables, pasta dishes, sausage and various beans. MBH’s Cannapple House was chosen by KTLA’s personality Gayle Anderson for morning news highlights along with a MBH team interview.
MBH used over 3,000 cans and at the close of the exhibition on September 21st, these cans will be donated to the Orange County Food Bank. “The Orange County Food Bank distributes 15 million pounds of food annually. In addition to the 23,000 people that the Food Bank serves directly each month, it provides food and personal care items to over 300 non-profit service organizations, such as social service agencies, churches, shelters, soup kitchens and senior centers.” http://www.ocfoodbank.org/aboutus/index.html. MBH hopes that this unique way in helping our communities starting with one can at a time will stand as symbol to remind everyone to help in any way they can.
For more information please visit www.canstruction.org
Please click here to watch the KTLA video clip