{"id":30,"date":"2010-01-25T15:29:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isabelbarros.blogs.ie\/2010\/01\/25\/inspiring-construction-with-plastic-bottles\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T17:53:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T17:53:25","slug":"inspiring-construction-with-plastic-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isabelbarrosarchitects.ie\/blog\/inspiring-construction-with-plastic-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Construction with Plastic Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These houses were built in Santa Cruz,\u00a0Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p>The walls are built with plastic bottles,\u00a0mortar, sand, clay, rubble,\u00a0water\u00a0and lots of community work. The concept is similar to the adobe construction technique.<\/p>\n<p>The bottle walls are very strong\u00a0and have also\u00a0been used in Honduras and Bolivia to build water reservoirs for as much as 20.000 litres.<\/p>\n<p>The bottles are filled with sand, soil or debris and\u00a0are tied to each other with a nylon thread.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bottle Construction\" src=\"http:\/\/isabelbarrosarchitects.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/images\/thumb-2010_01_19_1_Bottle%20construction%20%286%29.jpg\" alt=\"Bottle Construction\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bottle Construction\" src=\"http:\/\/isabelbarrosarchitects.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/images\/thumb-2010_01_19_1_Bottle%20construction%20%2812%29.jpg\" alt=\"Bottle Construction\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bottle Construction\" src=\"http:\/\/isabelbarrosarchitects.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/images\/thumb-2010_01_19_1_Bottle%20construction%20%2816%29.jpg\" alt=\"Bottle Construction\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/abetterplace.blogs.ie\/2010\/01\/22\/inspiring-construction-with-plastic-bottles\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Isabel Barros<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/isabelbarros\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/img\/webpromo\/btn_in_20x15.gif\" alt=\"View Isabel Barros's LinkedIn profile\" width=\"20\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>View Isabel Barros&#8217;s profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These houses were built in Santa Cruz,\u00a0Bolivia. 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