Still throwing plastic and glass bottles? But in vain. This is an excellent building material.
To raise the issue of garbage and its disposal, some people began ... to build houses. In the course are bottles, cork, chips, fragments of construction, industrial and household waste. Such houses are eco-friendly and cheap. And most importantly - they save nature from pollution.
1. Houses made of reinforced concrete pipe parts appeared in the Rodlpark park in Austria and became very popular among its visitors.
Of course, this is difficult to call home, since it accommodates only a bed, but it will be very interesting to spend the night with a tourist. True, you can do this in the warm season from May to October, as the bedrooms are not heated and not insulated.
2. These houses can be called a modern dugout, but they are built not in the dungeon, but on the surface.
Building materials are made of moisture resistant bags with damp earth, and instead of reinforcement, the land blocks are fastened with wire. Such "dugouts" are in demand in Asian countries, especially in Thailand, but they have reached our latitudes. The buildings can already be found in Ukraine on the territory of the Kharkov region and in Russia in the Moscow region.
3. Have you ever rested in a hotel surrounded by garbage?
No? Now you have such an opportunity. In the capital of Spain, Madrid, enthusiasts built a two-story hotel for 5 rooms, the frame is made of wood, but the decoration outside and inside - from various debris collected from beaches and caught from the ocean. Creation was created to attract public attention around the world to the problem of debris and clogging up the environment. In this hotel there is no water and heating, but there are refrigerators completely clogged with garbage. At the entrance to the poster an inscription was placed, which states that soon everyone on vacation will have a rest, if nothing is done. Such a spectacle still motivates people to clean up garbage at least for themselves.
4. In Brazil on the island of Florianopolis Uruguayan artist built a house of garbage collected nearby.
In the construction went the entrance mirror and glass fragments, the remains of household appliances, bottles, old wood and ceramic tiles. The house was very light and airy, it has beds, comfortable kitchen and bathroom, as well as the blessings of civilization - internet, air conditioning and television. In this area surfers come to rest, and the house can be rented for a day for $ 59.
5. Do you think that you can store only grain at the elevator?
It turns out that you can still live in it. So, in the USA, Oregon, there is an unusual Abbey Road hotel right in the silo towers, which are already unsuitable for direct destination.
6. Probably the very first "garbage" houses were built of plastic bottles.
Today they can be found in different countries. They look very original, and in fact proved to be very practical.
7. In 1941, the very first house of glass bottles and cans was built in three months.
This happened in the USA, Virginia, the city of Hillsville. The house was ordered by an apothecary for his beloved daughter, so that she had her own separate, secluded corner for games. It stands to this day and accepts visitors as a museum exhibit.
8. Today, no one is surprised at the fact that from the decommissioned transport containers temporary shelters are made for refugees or people affected by natural disasters.
They are popular in the form of mansions with windows on the whole wall on the ocean shore. In 1987, American citizen Phillip Clark patented this method of using old containers.
9. In Tyumen, the head of the Research Institute of Ecology and Rational Use of Natural Resources Viktor Rydinsky designed an unusual house of oil waste.
To be more precise, from purified drill cuttings. This "building" material is environmentally friendly, perfectly retains heat and form.
10. In Ukraine in Zaporozhye not so long ago a local resident built a house of empty bottles for champagne.
It turned out very attractive and original. This house is perfectly cool in the summer and warm in winter.
11. On the first photo the ornament of the house is made exclusively of wine stoppers, and on the second photo - from plastic covers.
Agree that it looks very nice, and who would have thought that the garbage that we throw out every day, you can so decorate your own home.
12. Here is a research center in conjunction with a project workshop for students of the University of Brighton built of household waste and slag.
The foundation of this house is laid out of blast-furnace slag, walls - from obsolete tiles. Wall insulation is made from old DVD and flop discs, video tapes, more than two tens of thousands of toothbrushes and about two tons of jeans scraps.
13. A native of Ukraine, who moved to France in 1941, after retiring began to build a house of garbage in the city of Viry-Noureuil.
All materials for construction and, if I may say so, for decorating the house, he picked up at a local landfill. And this is what happened. True, with close examination of his house looks gloomy because of broken and broken dolls and other toys.
14. In Thailand there is an interesting Buddhist temple of emerald color, created from glass bottles.
The locals nicknamed him "the temple of a million bottles," since approximately such an amount of empty bottles actually took about the building of the building.
15. In the West of London, you can find a house from an old non-functioning water tower, in which its creator, furniture designer Tom Dixon, lives.
This house also brings its owner a good income, since from 13-meter height from any window opens a chic look.
16. But Dan Phillips has started his own company in the USA to build garbage houses to fight garbage.
Dan uses old picture frames, wine corks, construction and wood waste, etc., for the construction of these houses. During this time, he managed to build 14 such houses in his native Hanstville. Almost 80% of the materials he finds in garbage dumps. Local authorities actively cooperate with him and want to create a special warehouse, where developers and furniture makers can bring their garbage. Despite the fact that his houses are built from waste, they are far from being like shacks in a landfill. These are full-fledged and beautiful buildings, completely fit for life.
17. Another wrestler with garbage Michael Reynolds with an initiative team of assistants with their own hands builds houses from unusable car tires, popcorn cups and bottles.
18. This beautiful and bright gazebo was created from glass bottles in the US in Wilmington.
19. All build houses for money, but poor, living artist from Ireland, Frank Buckley in a brothel built his apartment out of money, crushing and pressing paper bills.
At the same time, he did not invest a single cent in this construction, and banknotes, which were previously withdrawn from circulation and written off for dilapidation, were given to him by banks. The creation of the apartment took away the written-off money with a nominal value of 1.4 million euros.
20. American students in the state of Iowa built a compact energy-saving house of garbage for less than $ 500 within the framework of the graduation project.
Young and talented future architects Amy Andrews and Ethan Van Kouten managed to build their house in 500 hours, which has electricity and water due to solar panels installed on the roof and a system that collects and cleans rainwater. The authors of the project do not plan to stop on their laurels and will continue to develop their activities in this direction. It is worth noting that at home such an area in this area is worth at least 10 thousand dollars.