5 BOTTLE BUILDINGS YOU WON'T BELIEVE

On average, humans can consume 15 or more products packed in PET plastic or glass bottles a month. This plastic or glass takes hundreds of years to decompose, never to completely vanish. Most of this waste is consumed by aquatic creatures and birds shortening their life span.

For this reason, single-use plastic and glass bottles have been used to give rise to skyscrapers by some legendary people mentioned in the post below. It seems unusual to use plastic bottles but scientifically, it is feasible.

However, the rigidity of plastic bottles is moderate but inserting mud into them can boost their strength along with their resistance to impact.

Now, let us discuss some of the edifices made from bottles along with the belief behind their making.

Bottle house of Ganja

Location-ganja Azerbaijan

Notion-

1. The architect, Ibrahim Jafarov constructed this house not for his living but in the memory of his brother who died in World War II. 
2. He was very determined to construct it because he felt that his brother would return. So he has also affixed a picture of his brother inside the house. 
3. There are inscriptions in honor of the Olympic Games held in the USSR.

Architecture-

• The house is a two-story building rendered from mottled bottles broth
• ht from Sochi, Russia with shimmering colors.
• It is made from Black sea stones and 48,000 bottles which reflect and refract light like a prism. 
• The thousands of bottles that camouflage its walls are gently placed to create works of art and mosaic at every inch of the building.
• The bottoms of bottles are beautifully used to write the word 'Ganja' on different parts of the building by the architect.
• The names of soldiers of world war II are written on walls who didn't get recognition.

This house is a private dwelling, at present, so you can't enter it, but you can take a picture of yourself against this remarkable backdrop.

SEE ALSO: 7 STUNNING SHOTS OF ARCHITECTURE IN BAKU

Mini Bottle Gallery

Location- Oslo, Norway

Notion-

1. A seven-year boy, Christian Ringnes, got a miniature bottle from his father which lead him to collect bottles.
2. He inaugurated this museum, in May 2003 after 42 years of bottle collecting. The stunning number of bottles is 53000.
3. It is open on weekends and costs NOK 85 for the entry ticket. There is a minibar too.

"Småflaskemuseet" by "ANNE SOPHIE" is licensed under "CC BY 2.0" 

Things to cherish-

• This spot comprises lots of hilarious, quirky, and bizarre displays from Norwegian, Nordic, and foreign cultures which devises it as a very entertaining gallery to enjoy.
• The outstanding part is a slide down to the Horror room where some of the most peculiar bottles await you.
• In short, this place is packed with mini bottles from around the world which increases knowledge and is full of surprises. 
• You must spend a minimum of two hours here. It's a very unique place with lots of things to admire, so it's worth visiting.

Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village

Location- California, US

Anyone can do anything with a million dollars. Look at Disney. But it takes more than money to make something out of nothing, and look at the fun I have done it.

-Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey

Notion

1. The bottle village was established by a grandmother at the age of 60. She had a hobby of collecting pencils.
2. At the age of 60, she wanted to make a house for her 17,000 pencils to stay. But, she was unable to find bricks to build the house, as the prices were out of her budget.
3. As a result, she visited a local dump where she discovered thousands of colored bottles. She made cement with her own hands and constructed her first bottle house.

"Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village" BY LAURIE AVOCADO is licensed under "CC BY 2.0"

Things to cherish-

• Grandma Prisbrey's bottle village has been officially chosen as an antique landmark of Simi Valley.
• There are about 16 buildings and structures like the Leaning Tower of bottle village, the dolls head shrine, the roundhouse, and much more.
• When grandma was alive she would take the tourists on a tour of the village and end up visiting the meditation room where she emphasized tourists meditate. 
• She charged only 75 cents as fees but visitors would give her oftentimes more.

Plastic bottle village

Location- Bocas del Toro, Republic of Panama

Mankind went through the stone age, went through the ice age, and today going through the plastic age. 

-Robert Bezeau

 

Notion

1. Robert Bezeau, a Canadian,  born in Montreal, got fed up and went to this beautiful island - "Bocas del Toro- PANAMA".
2. Robert says that once he woke up from a dream when he was in a Village where everything was built with bottles. He said," that's what I gotta do. I am gonna build houses using bottles. We need to try to do something to make a better world. It's believed that there will be more plastic in the oceans than the fish."
3. In 1991, an earthquake disrupted people's living. As a result, Robert volunteered to help people re-accommodate People loved the place and choose to stay there. But when tourists come they consume, buy things, so the trash started to grow faster than the capacity of the city to be able to clean. During one and a half years of picking up trash bottles, he accumulated one million plastic bottles.

Things to cherish-

1. Plastic bottle castle

"20180209_Panama_4481 Bocas del Toro sRGB" by DAN LUNDBERG is licensed under "CC BY 2.0"

• Plastic bottle castle is the only castle of its kind and holds its only knowledge base jail where one can rue for what they have triggered two exacerbate the state of a planet Earth.
• The only intent of this castle is to inspire adults and kids and alert them about the danger of growing incursion caused by microplastic (i.e. used in toothpaste and soaps as an exfoliating agent) in our oceans that will kill the sea life by 2050.

2. The Dungeon Jail

• The only objective of this jail is to meet people repent of what they have done to mother Earth.
• You will experience fun and education in a mock jail cell, you will be inspired to start living in the fresh air again but this time working with and not against planet earth. 
• The environment there is filled with paintings and posters. They also showcase reel messages that could probably change one's perspective about life.
• COST for this relent vacation = $30per day per person.
• REPENT T-SHIRT = you will be given a REPENT T-SHIRT 
• You will be issued a certificate which acts as a souvenir for your visit and it will depict that you have to REPENT successfully. 

3. Carbon footprint stickers 

• These stickers are for those who are concerned about piles of earth's sustainability.
• Once the sticker is applied to a used plastic bottle and abandoned in a public location, the bottle will be picked up and returned to Public Bottle Village to be exchanged for dollars and will be reused in construction materials instead of thrown in the ocean. 
• This helps in providing a living to the less fortunate.
• Sheet of 25 stickers worth $5
• This helps in contributing to the sustainable development of our mother earth.

Temple of a Million Bottles

Location- Sisaket, Thailand

Architecture-

• Million bottle temple is composed of 1.5 million beer bottles, which sounds horrible.
• One can't stop looking at the mural of Buddha,  contemplating under the Boddhi tree solely made from bottle caps. 
• In this way, there is no scope of pollution as no portion of the bottle is tossed out. It was deemed as one of the ten leading endurable architectures in 2015.

"Million Bottle Temple Detail" by MARK FISCHER is licensed under "CC BY 2.0"

Notion-

1. The Buddhist monks used to collect bottles to decorate their shelters. This building material seemed shiny which encouraged people to donate more bottles and finally, the monks collected as many bottles as needed to make this pagoda.
2. In a hope to live a peacefully, greenery-filled life, Buddhists came up with this idea and gathered the glass bottles 
3. This helped in decoratively disposing of the waste.
4. This also helped in reducing the carbon dioxide and restraining them from filling into the land. 
5. They believed this to be one of the best ways to attain Moksha or Nirvana. 

Conclusion

On a concluding note, it is very thrilling to explore such a beautiful place and write about it, there are lots of places which will be jotted down in the upcoming posts but the content written above will fascinate you to visit this marvelous and stunning spot. 

||Like the making of every picture, these places also have many stories behind their establishments, some made these small-small places in remembrance of their loved ones some are set up because of their contribution to the nation, and some buildings are raised from the best out of waste||

Do comment which is your favorite place that you want to visit. 

May life brings sunshine and rainbows into your life!