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Building Made With Recycled Bottles

Several buildings have been made with recycled bottles in the past century. Both glass and plastic bottles are used in construction because they are a widely available, cheap, and recycled resource. Many builders create their bottle buildings to make a statement about ecology and preserving resources. Whether it's because of their shining colors, their unusual appearance, or their ingenuity, bottle buildings spark interest and curiosity. Here's a listing of some famous bottle buildings with some factoids about each.

  1. The Famous Rhyolite Bottle House

    • Kelly built his bottle house in Death Valley NV, where lumber is scarce.

      The Rhyolite house is probably the first structure that comes to mind when someone says "building made of bottles." The Rhyolite house was built by Tom Kelly in 1906 in Death Valley, Nevada, during a short-lived gold rush in the town. Kelly used over 50,000 beer bottles held together with adobe to build his structure, which he did live in for a period of time. The house has changed hands a few times since Kelly's death, but was restored in 2005. It is an attraction for tourists visiting the ghost town of Rhyolite.

    Water-Filled Bottles for Temperature Regulation

    • This Australian organic winery takes environmentalism in a new direction.

      The Random Valley Organic Winery in Australia won a government grant to construct a building made of wine bottles filled with water. What makes this building unique among bottle structures is that it is studied with thermal imaging monitoring -- the water in the bottles helps regulate temperature within the building. The winery's owner, Peter Little, used 13,500 bottles to build his structure, a wine cellar. Little is a former university architecture lecturer as well as co-owner of the organic winery with his wife, Suzanne.

    Wat Lan Kuad: The Temple of One Million Bottles

    • The temple's walls and roof are made entirely of beer bottles and cement.

      Buddhist monks in Thailand built their temple from over one million beer bottles. The temple is in Sisaket province near Thailand's border with Cambodia. The monks began collecting bottles in 1984 as a recycling effort and have since built over 20 buildings from these recycled resources, including their temple, prayer rooms, bungalows, and tourist bathrooms. Concrete was poured inside each bottle for stability, and used as a cement to hold the bottles together for the buildings' construction.

    Argentinian Plastic Bottle House

    • One man's recycling is another man's home.

      Alfredo Santa Cruz and his family built a house and a small "children's building" entirely from plastic 2-liter bottles and Tetra Pak cartons. Other recyclables, such as CD cases, were used for accents within the home. Even the furniture in Santa Cruz's home is made of bottles, such as the soda bottle bed. Santa Cruz now lives in the structure with his family. He said he built the house to demonstrate the usefulness of the domestic waste that we produce each day.

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