Africa's First House Made of Plastic Bottles in Nigeria<a href="https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/11/Nigeria-bottle-house-1.jpg"></a> With a serious housing shortage but no shortage of plastic bottles littering the streets, the <a href="http://www.pciaonline.org/dare">Development Association for Renewable Energies</a> (DARE) - an NGO based in Nigeria - decided to build this incredible two-bedroom bungalow entirely out of plastic bottles! Although many in Kaduna were dubious when the project began construction in June this year, the nearly-complete home is bullet and fireproof, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_engineering">earthquake resistant</a>, and maintains a comfortable interior temperature of 64 degrees fahrenheit year round! <a href="https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/11/Nigeria-bottle-house-2.jpg"></a> Hundreds of plastic bottles were filled with sand and then linked together at the neck by an intricate network of string....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/africas-first-plastic-bottle-house-rises-in-nigeria/'>READ ARTICLE</a>1
Africa's First House Made of Plastic Bottles in Nigeria<a href="https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/11/Nigeria-bottle-house-1.jpg"></a> With a serious housing shortage but no shortage of plastic bottles littering the streets, the <a href="http://www.pciaonline.org/dare">Development Association for Renewable Energies</a> (DARE) - an NGO based in Nigeria - decided to build this incredible two-bedroom bungalow entirely out of plastic bottles! Although many in Kaduna were dubious when the project began construction in June this year, the nearly-complete home is bullet and fireproof, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_engineering">earthquake resistant</a>, and maintains a comfortable interior temperature of 64 degrees fahrenheit year round! <a href="https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/11/Nigeria-bottle-house-2.jpg"></a> Hundreds of plastic bottles were filled with sand and then linked together at the neck by an intricate network of string....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/africas-first-plastic-bottle-house-rises-in-nigeria/'>READ ARTICLE</a>2
Africa's First House Made of Plastic Bottles in Nigeria<a href="https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/11/Nigeria-bottle-house-1.jpg"></a> With a serious housing shortage but no shortage of plastic bottles littering the streets, the <a href="http://www.pciaonline.org/dare">Development Association for Renewable Energies</a> (DARE) - an NGO based in Nigeria - decided to build this incredible two-bedroom bungalow entirely out of plastic bottles! Although many in Kaduna were dubious when the project began construction in June this year, the nearly-complete home is bullet and fireproof, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_engineering">earthquake resistant</a>, and maintains a comfortable interior temperature of 64 degrees fahrenheit year round! <a href="https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/11/Nigeria-bottle-house-2.jpg"></a> Hundreds of plastic bottles were filled with sand and then linked together at the neck by an intricate network of string....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/africas-first-plastic-bottle-house-rises-in-nigeria/'>READ ARTICLE</a>3
Africa's First House Made of Plastic Bottles in Nigeria
With a serious housing shortage but no shortage of plastic bottles littering the streets, the Development Association for Renewable Energies (DARE) - an NGO based in Nigeria - decided to build this incredible two-bedroom bungalow entirely out of plastic bottles! Although many in Kaduna were dubious when the project began construction in June this year, the nearly-complete home is bullet and fireproof, earthquake resistant, and maintains a comfortable interior temperature of 64 degrees fahrenheit year round!
Hundreds of plastic bottles were filled with sand and then linked together at the neck by an intricate network of string....
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