Last week ArtsWom brought you a house made from shipping containers. Continuing this theme (and upping the ante somewhat), check out this house made from plastic bottles. Whilst not as design-tastic as the previous domicile, this is far more practical. Built in Santa Cruz, Bolivia from 25,000 sand-filled bottles, this has proved to be an extremely cheap yet effective method of building housing in a deprived area.

There are, of course, steel beams that make the structure sound, and the walls are fortified with cement, but essentially the house is made from discarded drink bottles. Initially constructed as an artistic installation by students commenting on the vast wastage in such a deprived country, so successful has the house been, that there are plans to erect ten more in the same village.

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