Plastic is one of the most disposable materials in the modern world. Thats why before making a plastic bottle house, you need to solidify the bottles. Building vacadiezs first plasticbottle house in tlaxcala, capital of the central mexican state of the same name, started with the gathering of. Local firm plans to build houses from plastic bottles the. Sep 26, 2016 plastic bottle houses plan construction cost green. This house is made of 8,000 plastic bottles and is one of many bottle homes built by hondurasbased ecotec. From the quick tutorial below youll see why this is so. Due to costeffectiveness and sustainable characteristic, the plastic bottles are becoming popular for building construction. The bottles are filled with mud and bound together with a cement mixture, offering cheap, long lasting construction. I wrote in the past about the use of water bottles in roofs, either as a light source or as a thatching material, all of which shows further the limitless of human creativity.
Plastic bottles turns into construction materials civil engineering innovation and creativity replace the strong, conventional process of the construction for the betterment of the society. Chances are that you threw away the bottle, without a second thought, when you were done. It is believed that the first bottle house was constructed in 1902 by william f. Developed technology to build water tanks with pet bottles. Dont you know, buildings from plastic bottle are in the house. Africas first plastic bottle house rises in nigeria. Feb 09, 2017 reuse of plastic bottles in civil construction.
The bottles were filled with sand and are held together by mud and cement to form a solid wall that supposedly is stronger than cinder clocks. Construction of plastic bottle walls, roofs and their benefits in buildings. Building construction with plastic bottles walls, roofs. Use of plastic waste in civil constructions and innovative decorative material ecofriendly. By collecting plastic bottles and plastic waste to be used as a wall infill improves the surrounding environment and provides inexpensive building materials. The use of plastic bottles in construction materials has been around for the past twenty years, but with little focus on using full plastic bottles in the materials. And dont forget that plastic bottles take hundreds of years to disintegrate. Mar 29, 20 all about building with and reusing plastic bottles. Jan 27, 2018 the method of making a house with bricks and with plastic bottles are actually the same. Building construction with plastic bottles walls, roofs and. Smriti saraswat uses the example of bottle bricks in interiorarchitecture to answer these questions. The man who wants to build a village out of plastic bottles. Building with bottles building trust international. Cut costs with a plastic bottle house new vision group.
Jun 30, 2017 a group of women drink tea under the shade of a tent and cast an eye over the construction of an odd, circular house. The amazing history of the bottle structure build abroad. Ecotec plasticbottle greenhouses, office partitions, sheds, benches, walls, and community centers are also popping up in tokyo, the u. The peck bottle house was built in 1902 from 10,000 bottles. A man builds a wall with plastic bottles in the village of sabon yelwa. I have always been a dumpster diver and developed a used building materials and deconstruction business known as. They used 1200 pet plastic bottles for the walls, 0 milk and wine tetra pack boxes for the roof, 140 cd cases for the doors and windows, plus. Build your own plastic bottle greenhouse how to make one in eight easy steps 1. Completed in 1941, the words happy home are spelled out in glass on the front and. Here, 25 plastic bottle homes are being built and will soon be made available for rent. Alfredo santa cruz and his family built this house and matching play house out of used plastic bottles, tetra packs and cd cases. By using these pet bottles you get to help mother nature, while building a very long lasting structure. Plastic bottles turns into construction materials civil. Building construction with plastic bottles are lowcost and eco friendly.
You will need approximately 1400 empty 2litre 40oz plastic bottles to build a greenhouse that is 8 x 6. Remove the bottle tops and cut off the bottoms of the. House construction with plastic bottles tatah lehbib was born in the auserd refugee camp, and grew up in an adobe house and a tent in the dunes. More than 20,000 plastic bottles are needed to obtain one ton of plastic. How to build a greenhouse using plastic bottles dengarden. In the construction of flexible pavements, bitumen plays the role of binding the aggregate together by coating over the aggregate.
A group of activists have come up with a plan to build a house using bottles, providing what they say is an environmentally. Now adays, large amount of plastic bottles are wasted and disposed every day. May 01, 2011 construction with bottles do you remember the last time you bought a drink in a plastic bottle. If you dont have enough bottles saved up, you can collect them from neighbours, friends, hotels, bars, and restaurants in your area. Plasticbottle homes are popping up around the world takepart. Ecological bottle house, near the iguazu falls, misiones, argentina. A group of women drink tea under the shade of a tent and cast an eye over the construction of an odd, circular house. With a serious housing shortage but no shortage of plastic bottles littering the streets, the development association for renewable energies dare an ngo based in nigeria decided to build this. In addition, bricks are solid and hard, while plastic bottles are hollow and soft. Title waste plastic bottles offering innovative building materials with sustainable. The halfbuilt dwelling is the brainchild of tateh lehbib braica, 27, an. Fill a bottle with plastic at your own house and you will be amazed at how many plastic bags you can get into a 500 ml bottle. Using plastic bottles to build a house architectural designs. Overlay frame with steel wires or mesh to hold bottles together for better structural interity 4.
Six diy glass houses built from bottles atlas obscura. How to build a house using plastic bottles diy projects for. For specific applications, grades with excellent uv resistance are available. How to build a house using plastic bottles diy projects. Other bottle houses popped up in the following decades as homes were often built in desert mining towns where saloons and their respective empty bottles, were more plentiful than construction materials. With a serious housing shortage but no shortage of plastic bottles littering the streets, the development association for renewable energies dare an ngo based in nigeria. Africas first plastic bottle house rises in nigeria inhabitat. This is a building construction style which usually uses glass bottles although mason jars, glass jugs, and other glass containers may be used also as masonry units and binds them using adobe, sand, cement, stucco, clay, plaster, mortar or any other joint compound. Investigating the application of plastic bottle as a sustainable material in building construction raghuchandra g1 vatsalya c2 udit bhaskar dutta3 smitha gp4 1,2,3,4department of civil engineering 1,2,3,4channabasaveshwara institute of technology, gubbi572216, tumkur, karnataka, india abstractone of the main disadvantages in constructing. Ecotec plastic bottle greenhouses, office partitions, sheds, benches, walls, and community centers are also popping up in tokyo, the u. Investigating the application of plastic bottle as a. Being a student of architecture, i feel privileged to be part of this innovative construction project.
The paper intends to investigate the application of plastic bottles which is one of the urban waste in building construction and that how it can lead to sustainable. Oct 02, 2015 make a cement bed about 4 cm thickness in the pit. The house was built with 10,000 bottles of beer from jhostetters stomach bitters, which. Jahaya kesot1, law chia wen 1, loo yong xin 1, ng pei ling 1, vivian sim jia lei 1 1civil engineering department, centre of diploma studies, universiti tun hussein onn malaysia corresponding email. Jul 21, 2016 oscars plastic homes can be assembled remarkably quickly a 40 m 2 house divided into two bedrooms, a bathroom, living room, dining room and kitchen, and can be built by four people in just. For this, first lay a bottle on the bed such that the bottle is radially oriented towards the centre. Since the area of contact of 250ml bottle brick and 1. Robert bezeau is the creator of plastic bottle villagea community in panama that reuses plastic bottles to build houses, roads, and more. Laura kutner wants your trashspecifically, your plastic bottles. Tom kelly started the first bottle structure in rhyolite, nevada. Plastic bottles are easy to build with, too, with less construction material to use.
Strength properties of plastic bottle bricks and their suitability as construction. The 2 litre bottles are ideal and around 1,500 are needed for a large sized greenhouse. These houses are built with blocks made from waste plastic. Each house is crafted using around 7,800 plastic bottles, with each house comprising a bedroom, living room, bathroom and kitchen. The engineers without borders student group on the campus at kansas state university have found a way to utilize the full 500ml plastic bottle in the creation of concrete walls.
They used 1200 pet plastic bottles for the walls, 0 milk and wine tetra pack boxes for the roof, 140 cd cases for the doors and windows, plus 320 pet bottles for the furniture. Feb 11, 20 plastic bottle construction slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. The alternative way that can solve the problem is by replacing the use of bricks in building construction by plastic bottles filled with sand as we. It also helps to improve the strength and life of road pavement. Craftsman house provides safe, disasterresistant, comfortable housing that is affordable for those in poverty. Use of plastic waste in civil constructions and innovative. Recycling glass and plastic bottles bill sitkin says, at the heart of recycling, for me, is a great love for this planet and the awesome natural systems that support life here. Pdf application of plastic bottle as a wall structure.
See more ideas about bottle house, earthship and bottle wall. Massive plastic bottle building unveiled in taiwan treehugger. Application of plastic bottle as a wall structure for green house. Now we are going to lay 10 or 11 bottles around this rod. The spacious, modern kitchen includes base cabinets made of rotproof lowfired.
About 31% of these are prefab houses, 1% are formwork, and 0% are doors. For this reason, many developing countries are embracing the construction of bottle structures. Use of recycled plastic water bottles in concrete blocks. The newage engineers seem to be the flag bearer of this thought. Keywords plastic bottle, homes are high cost of building materials and labor and also sustainable material, sustainable development, urban wastage, construction material. Application of plastic bottle as a wall structure for green house mardiha mokhtar 1, suhaila sahat1, baizura hamid 1, masiri kaamin 1, m. Oscars plastic homes can be assembled remarkably quickly a 40 m 2 house divided into two bedrooms, a bathroom, living room, dining room and kitchen, and can be built by four people in just. A wide variety of plastic house construction options are available to you, such as type, standard, and use. Oct 02, 2014 the bottle house was once the home of john j. Creative construction conference 2016 use of recycled plastic water bottles in concrete blocks sina safinia, amani alkalbani middle east college, kom, rusayl, muscat pc 124, oman abstract the purpose of this study is to examine the possibility of using plastic bottles in concrete block. Building construction with plastic bottles walls, roofs and benefits. This 2 bedroom house built from recycled plastic bottles is bulletproof and fireproof and can withstand earthquakes.
If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Building construction with plastic bottles are lowcost and ecofriendly. Construction process collect the plastic bottles fill the bottles as many as you can. Bottle bricks refer to sand filled plastic bottles that are used. Thus, there is increased contact with other colloids and with the soil solution. In this construction article, detail information is provided concerning use of plastic bottle in walls, roofs as well as their advantages in buildings. As noted by plastics bricks and they are one of the major ingredients in building industry 2011 reusing plastic bottles may seem safe, but a material used for. The method of making a house with bricks and with plastic bottles are actually the same. Strength of concrete masonry units with plastic bottle cores. He got the opportunity to study renewable energy at algerias tlemcen university, before winning an erasmus scholarship to pursue a masters degree in energy efficiency at the university of las. They comprise a large portion of the waste to form greenhouse gasses all around the world.
House construction with plastic bottles by samarpan. And, if you can spare some time, shed like your help using those bottles to build a wall. Waste plastic bottle as construction material iarjset. Vertical bottle walls when a house is designed with a bearing frame, the walls can be filled with almost anything waste, sand, etc. These houses are new to me, although the use of plastic water bottles in construction isnt. They are prized for their consistent mechanical performance, outstanding durability, good thermal insulation and sound deadening properties.
How to turn 8,000 plastic bottles into a building arts. Creative construction conference 2016 use of recycled plastic water bottles in concrete blocks sina safinia, amani alkalbani middle east college, kom, rusayl, muscat pc 124, oman abstract the purpose of this study is to examine the possibility of using plastic bottles in. Sep 11, 2015 the film explores the method of ecological construction and examines how nylon6 fishnet is used to replace steel within the structural slab and recycled plastic pet bottles packed with earth are. The packaging and plastic bottles are unlimited today. Pdf ecofriendly house construction using pet bottles ijsrd. Most of the construction of house in malaysia use bricks and mortar which consists of cement. The alternative way that can solve the problem is by replacing the use of bricks in building construction. Developed technology to build with pet bottles which helps to reuse plastic bottles and avoid plastic menace.
He used over 30,000 beer bottles that were held together with adobe. Plastic bottle construction use of plastic bottles in. House construction with plastic bottles open earth foundation. Construction of plastic bottle walls, roofs and their benefits in buildings is discussed. After filling the sand laying of foundation the bottles were tightly packed and capped 5. Oh, and it also reportedly holds a comfy yearround temperature of 64 degrees f. The only difference is the shape, while bricks come in square, plastic bottles are round.