Houses Made from Beer Bottles

Innovative Building Idea of the Week: Houses Made from Beer Bottles

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"In Quilmes, Argentina, a town of 500,000 people in the province of Buenos Aires, artist Tito Ingenieri decided to build his house using a unique form of recycled materials: Used glass bottles. He began collecting bottles from trash dumps, and pretty soon local residents and merchants were saving their discarded bottles to give to him. He then used his booty, which eventually totaled over 6 million bottles, to construct a house. The cement base gives it strength, and the house itself has grown to a mini-compound with a built-in weather service — when a storm is coming, Ingenieri says, the bottles make whistling noises to alert him. Not exactly the modular mansions of notoriety for upper-middle-class Americans — but it’s certainly easier on the planet."