“This is the first house in Africa built from bottles, which could go a long way in solving Nigeria’s huge housing need and cleaning the badly polluted environment,” Christopher Vassiliu, project manager, said during a tour of the building recently. The structure still under construction is in many ways a marvel to look at. The project was initiated by a...
Kaduna-based NGO, Development Association for Renewable Energies (DARE), with help from foreign experts from Africa Community Trust, a London-based NGO.
Sitting on 58-square metres (624-square feet), the two-bedroom bungalow looks like an ordinary home, but it differs in many ways. When completed, the house will be used to train masons in building such structures. It is made from capped, sand-filled plastic bottles, each weighing three kilogrammes.
The bottles are stacked into layers and bonded together by mud and cement, with an intricate network of strings holding each bottle by its neck, providing extra support to the structure. With the prototype in Kaduna State now well underway, the group wants to extend its efforts and build more of such houses.
Wow! This shows how creative many Nigerians are. If this much can be achieved without governments support, you can imagine what our people will do if a little encouragement is made available for them to unleash their potentials. Nigerians are hardworking, just that the system is frustrating.
Additional report by Vanguard.
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