In a refugee camp guy built his own house out of plastic bottles, not to huddle in a dark tent

  • Dec 24, 2019
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House made of bottles filled with sand.
House made of bottles filled with sand.

In recent years, it remains a topical issue of construction of houses made of scrap materials and the usual junk that has accumulated in every corner of our planet. As practice shows, it is not only the cheaper way to acquire their own homes and to prove their creative abilities, but also to clean up the environment at least part of the accumulated plastic bottles. While a young man from a refugee camp in Algeria had several other goals, creating an amazing house made of bottles, but nature still benefit from it.

An ordinary guy from a refugee camp built his own house out of plastic bottles. | Photo: facebook.com.
An ordinary guy from a refugee camp built his own house out of plastic bottles. | Photo: facebook.com.

Scientists have long been sounding the alarm, calling all of us to abandon the use of plastic bottles, because of their decomposition process takes almost 500 years. This fact prompted Earthlings indifferent to the idea that the usual attributes of life of each of us can serve as an ideal building material.

Plastic bottles that filled the entire planet become an ideal building material. | Photo: teetoteler.com.
Plastic bottles that filled the entire planet become an ideal building material. | Photo: teetoteler.com.
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After all, if plastic is not exposed to direct sunlight, the deformation and the integrity of the changes it will not get any for at least 300 years. Therefore, there is hardly a more stable and durable material for housing construction.

To create original bricks in each bottle had to pour the sand. | Photo: steemit.com.
To create original bricks in each bottle had to pour the sand. | Photo: steemit.com.

Not only that, it has a life span and can be found without problems in a landfill, in the park or the beach, so it is still almost weightless, which facilitates the construction work. The only thing that is kind of construction will need a lot of time, considering preparatory work, which involves filling and compaction of sand or any other dry material each bottle.

Children happy to help fill sand into the bottle. | Photo: ezermester.hu.
Children happy to help fill sand into the bottle. | Photo: ezermester.hu.

Therefore, those who have time left, and choose a non-standard way to create a home, because it is cheap, practical, and even beautiful. Authors Novate. Ru has introduced its readers with similar projects and ways of their construction, but the house built by an Algerian, also deserves attention.

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Special compound bonded each row of bottles. | Photo: facebook.com.
Special compound bonded each row of bottles. | Photo: facebook.com.

This is an amazing construction began with the fact that a young guy living in crowded tent camps for refugees in Tindouf, that in the south-western Algeria tired terrible conditions of existence. In this camp for 25 years, refugees from Western Sahara (Sahrawi) live in ordinary tents just in inhumane conditions that have compounded and desert climate.

House out of plastic bottles young man decided to do a round shape. | Photo: ezermester.hu.
House out of plastic bottles young man decided to do a round shape. | Photo: ezermester.hu.

In order to somehow arrange his life, to make at least the minimum comfort and receive the saving coolness of the young man decided to build their own home. Fortunately, this type of construction material as plastic bottles all the vicinity of the camp It was inundated, and the landfill of several restaurants provide all the missing recyclables.

To design was more stable and stronger neck of each bottle is necessary to wrap a strong rope. | Photo: ezermester.hu.
To design was more stable and stronger neck of each bottle is necessary to wrap a strong rope. | Photo: ezermester.hu.

To start with the guy brought the empty container on the platform, where he planned to build his house and began to fill each bottle with sand and various debris, tightly twisting each of them cover. This he did in order to give the same kind of bricks forms and ensure the strength and stability of the future structure.

House out of plastic bottles inside. | Photo: ezermester.hu.
House out of plastic bottles inside. | Photo: ezermester.hu.

If refugees initially laughed at the boy, then later began to help him and very enthusiastic by this process. Given the fact that the people in the camp did nothing, the most time-consuming process was very fast and fun because children who connected to the tamping of bottles, we saw it as an interesting adventure and fun, so do not build long delayed.

Front of the house out of plastic bottles. | Photo: amarujala.com.
Front of the house out of plastic bottles. | Photo: amarujala.com.

To keep rows of original bricks, they laid out a special composition of clay and sand, and then each bottle caps wound around ropes, creating thus the net. Soon the house was built, which is an ideal place of residence after the tent, because of the housing bottles has excellent thermal insulation and even in the intense heat of its walls provide life-saving cool.

Made from plastic bottles, even a fence. | Photo: facebook.com.
Made from plastic bottles, even a fence. | Photo: facebook.com.

The boy and his volunteers are so enthusiastic about the construction that made even the fence of the bottles, as well as several houses original round shape. And now their camp boasts unique houses created from the usual garbage that diversity is not only the life of the refugees, but also attracted many creative teamwork.

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The creative process of building out of plastic bottles carried away many of the refugees, especially the children. | Photo: facebook.com.
The creative process of building out of plastic bottles carried away many of the refugees, especially the children. | Photo: facebook.com.

As it turned out, ordinary plastic bottles have become an inspiration for the Canadian architect who decided to build a whole village of them. Not only that such a process of construction helped to get rid of a million bottles filled all the beaches of the island and home to get comfortable and beautiful.
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