Bottle wall
by Mud Hands
An Experimental masonry by up-cycling glass bottles to building blocks. Nandini’s flavoured milk bottles and beer bottles were pre-casted in concrete to construct glass bottle walls. These walls can light the spaces subtly and add positively to the design. When used rightly, glass bottles can replace fixed glass and also create interesting patterns in a dark room.
The bottle walls can be constructed on site (in-situ) or made as precast panels. Mass production of pre-cast glass bottle panels of standard size can make it an available choice and one can see larger number of people using these elements in construction. Here are some of our works illustrating both the techniques.
Precast bottle embedded panels make the process of construction faster, thus saving on cost.
Precast bottle panels used to build a wall in an interior courtyard
The bottles are first placed in a mould and concrete is cast around them. Once the concrete sets, the protruding portion of the bottles is chopped off.
In-situ bottle wall
The bottles wall is built on site along with the masonry using the adjacent blocks itself as a formwork. In-situ construction of bottle walls gives us flexibility in design and no formwork is required.
Newspaper is stuffed in the holes of the clay blocks to prevent cement mortar from entering it.
The architectural intervention is an architecture design firm which promotes building with mud.
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