Dutch designer Boudewijn Buitenhek has built his own solar-powered kettle and coffee-bean roaster, in an experiment that saw him live in an apartment without mains gas or electric for a week.

Buitenhek wanted to explore whether clean energy could be harnessed by people living in rented apartments without access to a rooftop, not exclusively by homeowners.

He completed the project, called Living with the Sun, as part of his studies on the industrial design masters programme at KABK in The Hague.

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