Plastic Bottle Village is a village where houses are built from plastic bottles.
Several years ago, Canadian Robert Bizo (Robert Bezeau) moved to live on one of the tiny islands near Panama. The man has repeatedly noted that the coast is literally littered with discarded bottles of water and sweet drinks. After some time, Bizo found a use for mountains of plastic and decided to build an entire village using empty bottles as his main building material..
Project by Canadian Robert Bizo.
On the island of Colon, the Bocas del Toro archipelago will soon have the world’s first village with houses built of plastic (Plastic bottle village). The initiator of this project was the Canadian Robert Bizo. The first house of this village is ready, and the construction of the next, two-story mansion is already being completed..
House made of plastic bottles.
The construction technology is quite simple: empty bottles are stacked in interconnected wire nets, and then placed in steel frames. Further, the workers do the wiring and bring in all the necessary communications. The resulting walls are covered with concrete. At the final stage, the walls are plastered, windows and doors are inserted and a roof is made.
More than 10 thousand plastic bottles were used for one one-story house.
Robert Bizo says it took over 10,000 bottles to build the first home. The enthusiast notes that such a dwelling has good thermal insulation and does not require an air conditioner. In addition, it is earthquake resistant..
Two-story mansion made of plastic bottles.
Interior in a house built from plastic bottles.
33.5 hectares of area are allocated for the future village. It is planned that from 90 to 120 houses will be built on this site. In addition to residential buildings, Bizo wants to build a yoga pavilion and a shop.
Plastic Bottle Village – a village where all houses are built from plastic bottles.
Another bold experiment with alternative building materials was house made of cardboard. Its installation and connection of communications takes only one day.
