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Inspiring Construction with Plastic Bottles
January 22, 2010
These houses were built in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
The walls are built with plastic bottles, mortar, sand, clay, rubble, water and lots of community work emoticon. The concept is similar to the adobe construction technique.
The bottle walls are very strong and have also been used in Honduras and Bolivia to build water reservoirs for as much as 20.000 litres.
The bottles are filled with sand, soil or debris and are tied to each other with a nylon thread.
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Image from www.eco-tecnologia.com
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The corners are built with rows of 11 bottles laid in circle.
Image from www.eco-tecnologia.com.
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Image from www.eco-tecnologia.com.
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The Ecologic House was built using some 8,000 PET bottles.
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If you are interested to try this technique give a look at How to Construct Houses with Plastic Bottles !!
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Love it… can’t wait to test this out at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala where I live part time. This could help the survivors of Hurricane Agatha so much, who lost their houses and all their possessions recently in June. Thanks for posting more instructions than I have found most places online. How do I get more details about mortar mixes and techniques? Thanks, CatherineTodd2@gmail.com
Comment by Catherine Todd — August 11, 2010 @ 2:48 am
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