A house with 30,000 red bull bottles

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Ridwan Kamil is one of the biggest names in modern Indonesian architecture. As an architect with a love for green, he uses creative design to solve urban issues.  His house was made from 30,000 used Red Bull bottles  and known as Rumah Botol, or The House of Bottles.

The house took two years to build and was finally ready in 2007. After he’d changed the design plans seven times, Kamil happened to observe the litter created by the construction workers lounging about the site. They drank Red Bull, the energy drink, and the brown bottles were lying strewn around the yard. Kamil noticed a sunray light up a bottle, and had his eureka moment.

The result is a home constructed out of 30,000 cleaned and polished Red Bull bottles. It took six months to salvage these bottles from garbage dumps around West Java

The bottles improved the insulation of the house as well, which is always cool despite the lack of any air conditioning units. “The light goes through the bottles but the heat seems to remain trapped in them and does not pass into the house,

( Read the full article from the Hindu )

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