We are building a wall made of luniscent gin bottles today in the village of Besao! The prototype wall is an experiment and showcase in upcycling bottles and building from local materials. The bottles are filled with food coloring and mortared with cob (local clay, sand and rice straw and a little cement powder). Compared to normal cement brick construction, it costs virtually nothing, looks way better, and uses things that are easily found in the village. Oh, and kids can do most of the work! 🙂 Yuval, a couchsurfer from Israel helps us out!
I am really digging working with clay and bottles. Here is a sitting area that accopanies that gin bottle wall I posted earlier. The bench is made from eco-bricks, alas, it wasnt so comfortable. So I thought, why not sculpt a comfortable chair onto it?! The clay/sand/straw mix we are working with becomes super strong with just a little cement powder added– yet remains imminently hand sculptable (unlike regular cement). Beside the chair is a chess table made with gin bottles filled with alternating colored water. The switch turns on a light underneath to illuminate the whole thing at night. 🙂
