User:Peter Abrams

Pete Abrams is a New York-based tinkerer who looked at the global plastic trash crisis and thought, “What can we make from this?.” Pete is the creator of Plasticrete, the innovative process of fusing single‑use thermoplastic film and bag waste with heated sand or other aggregate to grow weirdly beautiful, yet archival pods masquerading as “dwellings.”

The average person sees a plastic bag,but Pete sees a future wall, a dome, or a floating village somewhere between a tide pool and a science fiction set. He spends an unreasonable amount of time experimenting with heated sand, improvised molds, and circular Seashellters that look like they were designed by a crab with strong opinions about sustainability.

Pete’s work centers on modular, circular and dome‑shaped Seashellters built from hexagonal Plasticrete pods that can become homes, studios, workshops, greenhouses, or floating ecosystems, depending on how you connect them together. He is less interested in billionaire seasteads and more interested in scrappy, cooperative micro‑civilizations where your neighbor might be a gardener, a sculptor, or a goose.

Entirely self‑taught and dangerously curious, Pete treats engineering, architecture, and craft like open‑source hobbies rather than respectable professions. When not fusing plastic into the future, he can be found ranting about waste, sketching new cellular village layouts, or explaining to strangers that “no, this is not a cult; it’s just a better way to live in pods.”