Tuesday 16 October 2012

The Trash Lady

Here's a women, Susanne Heisse, who used a frequently disposed material and found a way to transform it from trash to structure. Using disgarded bottles, wrappers and plastic bags often found lying on the ground in a little Mayan Village of San Marcos la Laguna, Guatemala, Heisse decided to stuff the bottles with the wrapers and plastics bags. By stuffing the materials into the bottles she has created "eco bricks" that are ready for construction. The stuffed bottles are now are structural building materials that canbuild schools and many types dwellings units.
Take a look at the video and be inspired. Amazing people doing amazing things. Design does not have to be rocket science.


To read more about this project click here.

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