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HAITI / TIRE ART
STORY: HAITI / TIRE ART
TRT: 4.44
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: 5 JULY 2009, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Med shot, man passing by a pile of car tires on the sidewalk
2. Close up, bicycle in front of tires
3. Med shot, Gary walking in and sitting on a tire chair
4. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“If we had been intelligent, we could have already solved a problem which we face: mosquitoes grow in the tires, they constitute as well a potential source of diseases and they are also very dangerous because they can take fire. If we want to use them, there are possibilities to manufacture many things with them.”
5. Pan right, Gary getting a car tire from the street
6. Close up, putting tires in the trunk of his car
7. Close up, car tires in preparation
8. Various shots, Gary working on a car tire to prepare a bird out of it
9. Zoom in, yellow bird hanging from a tree
10. Close up, red bird hanging
11. Close up, red and yellow bird turning
12. SOUND OVER PICTURE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“A tire is generally thick and absorbs heat when the sun strikes it during the day. It transmits the heat to the ground. Also the ground itself thus becomes hotter which accelerates the growth of the plants.”
13. Pan left, brown flower pots
14. Med shot, two brown flower pots
15. Various shots, several black-and-white flower pots
16. Close up, tires, glass bottles and cement
17. Close up, wall with tires
18. Pan left, wall with bottles and windows made of tires
19. Wide shot, interior of house
20. SOUND OVER PICTURE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“A house built out of rubber has several advantages: First, it is more economic than a traditional house because neither cement nor iron is used and the characteristic is that it does not need any foundation. Big car tires filled with earth replace the foundation. Furthermore, another characteristic is: they are ideal for seismic zones or earthquakes because the tires are elastic, they can absorb the vibrations. Concerning the temperature: walls out of rubber prevent the propagation of heat. Therefore no matter where you will build a house, if one constructs a house by using the tires there is great chance that the temperature inside is always at a comfortable level. Currently, the American actor Brad Pitt of whom a lot of people talk, just finished the construction of a house that has used this technology.”
21. Zoom in, interior of house
22. Pan left, exterior of house
23. Tilt up, inside house
24. Close up, car tire as lamp
25. Pan left, Gary at terrace in his garden, carrying two tires away
26. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“In zones with much erosion one can use the tires to plant trees inside the tires since it is a very easy work that demands a lot of labor. Also this work could create a lot of job possibilities. In this sense one could intervene at the ravines in order to reduce the speed of descending water by using for examples the tires.”
27. Various graphics, playground made with colored tires
28. SOUND OVER PICTURE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“Another thing: one can create playgrounds for children because the tires are soft and children cannot get hurt. Another possibility: we can use the tires to construct the foundation of the roads because our roads are so bad due to the increased descent of water in the rainy season. Thus the tires are used to manufacture the foundation as a base of the roads.”
29. Med shot, man working on bird
30. Close up, man painting bird
31. Close up, painting bird
32. Med shot, two men working on birds
33. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“The industrialized countries send us their garbage because in their countries the rules prohibit them to use the old tires. Due to this fact they send them to us as waste. However, my dream would be to send them the car tires back, but in form of these birds. So they are going to send us their garbage and we send it to them back as art craft. This is my dream.”
34. Close up, taking bird from back seat
35. Med shot, Gary walking in gallery yard with bird
36. Med shot, Gary entering gallery with bird
In Haiti one can find car tires everywhere on the streets. There are about 200,000 vehicles in the country, consuming on average 500,000 tires per year. But with imagination interesting objects can be made out of these tires.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“If we had been intelligent, we could have already solved a problem which we face: mosquitoes grow in the tires, they constitute as well a potential source of diseases and they are also very dangerous because they can take fire. If we want to use them, there are possibilities to manufacture many things with them.”
Gary Pierre-Charles is quite well known by local tire street vendors who sometimes keep tires for him. He recently started transforming car tires into decorative and also useful objects. These birds are used as flower pots.
SOUND OVER PICTURE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“A tire is generally thick and absorbs heat when the sun strikes it during the day. It transmits the heat to the ground. Also the ground itself thus becomes hotter which accelerates the growth of the plants.”
Being an architect, Gary has even built a house with tires. He used a technique which was invented by young ecologists in the eighties in California.
SOUND OVER PICTURE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“A house built out of rubber has several advantages: First, it is more economic than a traditional house because neither cement nor iron is used and the characteristic is that it does not need any foundation. Big car tires filled with earth replace the foundation. Furthermore, another characteristic is: they are ideal for seismic zones or earthquakes because the tires are elastic, they can absorb the vibrations. Concerning the temperature: walls out of rubber prevent the propagation of heat. Therefore no matter where you will build a house, if one constructs a house by using the tires there is great chance that the temperature inside is always at a comfortable level. Currently, the American actor Brad Pitt of whom a lot of people talk, just finished the construction of a house that has used this technology.”
In its courtyard, Gary also constructed terraces out of tire to retain the ground.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“In zones with much erosion one can use the tires to plant trees inside the tires since it is a very easy work that demands a lot of labor. Also this work could create a lot of job possibilities. In this sense one could intervene at the ravines in order to reduce the speed of descending water by using for examples the tires.”
SOUND OVER PICTURE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“Another thing: one can create playgrounds for children because the tires are soft and children cannot get hurt. Another possibility: we can use the tires to construct the foundation of the roads because our roads are so bad due to the increased descent of water in the rainy season. Thus the tires are used to manufacture the foundation as a base of the roads.”
While working with the tires, Gary and his team noted that the tires come from 45 different countries.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gary Pierre-Charles, Architect:
“The industrialized countries send us their garbage because in their countries the rules prohibit them to use the old tires. Due to this fact they send them to us as waste. However, my dream would be to send them the car tires back, but in form of these birds. So they are going to send us their garbage and we send it to them back as art craft. This is my dream.”
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