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Okay, we get forwarded many interesting emails on a daily basis about home design. Realistically it would be impossible to consider all of them for inclusion, but if this isn’t worth a feature I don’t know what is. I mean, sure we have featured some rather odd houses in the past and we even have looked at innovative ways to reuse objects but here is something that establishes a connect between two: A house that uses bottles as a building material!
The whereabouts of this house are unknown but we will be happy to add it if you let us know.
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That house looks awful, you over used mortar, and now it just looks like corn in a turd…terrible!!
You sir, are an idiot! The house looking beautiful is not the point of this. Step out of your damn box and see the good in this project. It finally puts a use to all those non-biodegradable bottles that seem to make it into the ocean or sit in a landfill for the 700 years. It is superficial people like you that are destroying our world! Open your eyes, this house IS beautiful!
Name calling is a logical fallacy in argument. I’m glad Harry said what he did. It was funny and an opinion. I’m sure he is cognizant of the environmental benefits which are so obvious what’s the point of even bringing it up. Harry for all we know could hold some lofty degrees in architecture and design since he brings up a valid point; the over-use of mortar. But what does he suggest?
Name calling is a logical fallacy in argument.
It may be ad hominem, but it is not a fallacy unless it is integral to the counterargument. (ie “you are an idiot, therefore you are wrong”).
Thanks, good shit to know.
Actually, you can reach a point where something looks so ugly, nobody will want it. This is at that point you dumb ****. And we think this is good for the environment? What about when everyone leaves it in 10 years and it’s a giant heap of plastic and clumpy mortar. That will just be worse, and those things will wind up not being recycled, so… fail for the treehuggers
Thats the most beautiful thing i have EVER seen, it enlightened me, it brought me to a higher level of thinking!
Location?
I don’t know where the bottle house above is built, but it is reminiscent to me of Grandma Prisbey’s Bottle Village, which she began in the 1950’s in Simi Valley, CA. Grandma Prisbey’s was more interesting, as she carefully chose the colors of the bottles and left them revealed, rather than covered up. The Village was severely damaged in an earthquake in 1994, I believe, and needs restoring. http://home.roadrunner.com/~echomatic/bv/index.html
@Harry, stop criticizing. Like to see you do it better.
It’s awesome. Could be a recycling project?
Nothing like putting up a building with no real structural components to it all. Its more like a kids play thing than a real house. No plumbing, no ele… no hvac. One hard wind storm or earthquake and bam the house is gone.
Nice work on building a death trap.
Not so fast douch bag, I see a few concrete columns in the pictures and there could be a few hefty wood beams used too (probably on the roof assembly).
The place looks very “professional” which leads me to believe more thought went into the structure than you tend to give credit for.
Happy New Year!,
_pete
*Sigh*
Crabs in a bucket.
Wow! Kool!
There’s are houses in Taos New Mexico made with bottles.and other junk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bottle,_Tire_and_Brick_walls_of_Earthships.JPG
WTF!!!
Pete,
I didn’t know that 4″ wide concrete columns ” with no visible rebar ends” make up a structure as well as some heaving wood beams. Once you put a roof on it, add your “heavy timbers” it becomes unstable. The ends of the walls are not attached to each other and will act as a parallelogram when pushed. I don’t see any sort of concrete footing that they attach to so said columns will be even deadlier if they tip.
My post was not intended to be mean, it was intended to point out that people with zero building knowledge should not just be throwing up a building as this clearly is.
no foooting
no foundations
no shearwalls
no sort of anchors to the ground
no way of the roof being anchored to the building
this is 3rd world construction being done at a time that is not acceptable to be putting up crap, like i said, one strong storm and everyone inside will die… while a real building would survive but be weakend.
The cost that could have gone into it if it was better thought out we be minimal at best, adding some anchors for the roof and foundation along with connecting the wall ends.
But I guess it would not be as cool if it were done right.
As far as thinking outside the box, this is a bad example of that, its ugly and poorly designed. Maybe her 2nd grader thought this up.
I actually can’t point out one thing that is designed well on this building, its unsafe. ugly, no room for any sort of hook ups.
Any retard can put up a building made out of recycled materials… .that does not make it a good idea. So far the best use of recycled buildings are the container boxes, very industrial but safe, portable, you can attached them to the ground….. etc etc… they too are ugly, and very basic.
1994
January 17th – A 6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes the area. The epicenter is 8 miles from Bottle Village and causes serious damage.
1995
March – FEMA awards Bottle Village $18,900 to conduct an Architectural and Engineering report that studies the possibility of a large scale rebuilding. The stellar and experienced rebuilding team consists of:
Bud Goldstone – Watts Towers Structural Engineer
Zuleyma C. Aguirre – Watts Towers Conservationist
Al Okuma – Architect
Marvin Rand – Photographer
Mo Shannon – MOCA Collections Expert
1996
October – Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village accepted onto the National Register of Historic Places.
November – After 2 & 1/ 2 years of working with FEMA, Preserve Bottle Village signs for the approved $485,000 in earthquake repair money.
1997
January – Local Congressman Elton Gallegly writes Bill HR175 against Bottle Village receiving any Federal Money, calling this money a “waste”.
Actually, it’s a new construction technique or i don’t know how to call it that some architects are testing. Here in México, in my school they built one of those houses to see if it resists the weather conditions and those kind of things.
I think it’s quite interesting and a good way to use those bottles that we all throw to the garbage.
you should start from the finishing pictures and go forward
Jeez….you really are a douch(?) bag…..can’t you just appreciate this for the thought behind it? Somebody has to start somewhere. This wasn’t presented as the utmost in design it was just meant to show something combining two issues….odd houses and innovative ways to reuse objects. Guess it didn’t meet your Guggenheim standard………………jeez.
Why is building a seemingly instable and in my opinion ugly house a good use fpr plastic bottles. Where i come from, we recycle the bottles, so the companies, which use them dont have to produce more of them. Every bottle used in this house is a bottle, that cant be reused and has to be replaced by another one meaning more plastic and more harm to the planet.
By the way, this house has no wires, pipes or insulation. You can’t even hang a picture on the walls. Completely useless.
now i’m thirsty.
ugly ass hell…the product of self-righteous hippery…
Wow that’s unreal! Amazingly camouflaged too!
Who cares about the design, it’s the idea and concept of this house; that’s what is so cool about this. Accept it and enjoy it. Great idea.
Wait!
Are those 2-liter plastic bottles?!?!
You have to use GLASS if you are going to do this. Plastic (actually the air inside) expands/contracts with temperature and pressure causing mass failure in the surrounding material.
Also the air inside is a large enough volume to convect, making for bad insulation.
now, if you pack dirt into the 2-liter bottles to give strength it would help significantly. but then you would have to take the tops off to get the dirt in there.
The finished look of this house reminds me of an upholstered chair I used to have, I think it is lovely on many levels. However, I prefer glass bottle construction, much prettier and I believe glass serves more purposes like providing more insulation than plastic and brings in more natural light, if the design is well planned. It is also very possible to create homes like this that are structurally sound and have electricity running through them, all the modern day conveniences built right in! I don’t know about the one on this page, it does not show us that much detail. Although, I thought I saw wires hanging out the top of one of those columns…?
Bottle construction is nowhere near new, it dates back to ancient Rome, as far as we presently know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_wall
I’m sick of eco-friendly eyesores.
Lets face it. Most of your comments proves that you did not get it. Creative workmanship from waste is another example of how we can create a dewinding. You should give her praise instead of verbal volley ball. Good Job, Very well done.
Its such an amazing design and gorgeous house! The spotlight should be shone on the human potential to be innovative, environmentally conscious, and resourceful. Beauty is only skin deep; there is purpose here and i’m sure that’s something we all can agree on.
Boy there are some very small minded people commenting on this article. You guys just stick with your prefabricated Mcmansions and your trailer homes. Don’t step letting other people do your thinking for you because your brains will explode.
The purpose is not beauty – clearly. It’s exploring new ideas in sustainable, ecologically friendly development. The purpose of using plastic bottles, apart from all that recycling, is that the air inside is a very good insulator. That means a house that is cheap to heat in winter, cheap to cool in summer. The earthships that someone mentioned are self-sustaining – they are completely off grid.
The guy that designed the earthships (an architect, BTW) won an award for using the same techniques to help thousands of people in Asia rebuild their homes (with recycled bottles and mud when they had little else) and their lives in the wake of the 2005 Tsunami.
But that kind of thinking is waaaaay too radical for you guys, isn’t it?
If i took a crap on the ground, is that an example of eco friendly building? Just because they used trash to build with doesn’t mean it is a good idea or appealing at all…
It looks great to me. There are tons of ways that you could set that up, and people like the guys doing the earthships are onto something really usefull. Honestly though, how great is your home going to look when there’s no room to put all the junk? When it’s cluttering up the streets because there isn’t any more room in landfills. Also, using this technology, it wouldn’t be too hard to make it look aesthetically pleasing.
I’m also not to sure where actually giving a fuck about where and how you live became “hippie.”
Must have missed that memo.
who the fuck would want a house made out of bottles
Friends it houses of bottles are in Santa Cruz de la Sierra – Bolivien and is constructed by Ingrid Vaca Diez creator of the ecological houses, can visit the page Web is http://www.casasde botellas.org
The construction is for people who live in the extreme poverty is a way to take care of environment and to save to the world of the contamination.
Would you have the heart to make the octagon house in the Philippines for the poor people and to help prevent voluminous waste of bottles of softdrinks.
This is a great way to teach the locals how to build houses from used bottles and great and cause worthy of time and focus.
please reply thru focusdorothy@ymail.com
LOCATION?
There is a thing like this is Colombia, take a look:
http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/environmental-protection/more-construction-with-pet-bottles/
this is amazing structure…great efforts desire apprecietion…
The house designed using recycled plastic bottles is a marvelous idea and solves so many problems of trash in landfills as well as an inexpensive building material available to just about anyone. It is designed by Eco-Tek out of Honduras. You can read more about them and the good work they do at their website:
http://www.eco-tecnologia.com
I can’t wait to start one of my own. The houses can be as “beautiful” as you like, depending on the size, shape, color and layers of concrete or plaster you use. At the end, you can’t tell if it’s adobe, brick, block or bottles. Depends on the design and the finish.
The bottles are packed with mud, dirt, sand or sawdust. See more on Eco-Tek’s website. Many countries in warm climates do not need more insulation than this. It’s a great idea whose time has come.