How to make a Glass bottle wall

In this new series titled Sustainable Home, we will take you through a series of videos on how to build a sustainable home. At Aanandaa, we are building an innovative and creative home, which is as sustainable as possible. We have explored several construction technologies and design, to ensure we have the most natural, resilient and energy efficient home.

In this episode, Manisha takes you through how to build a glass bottle wall, and how you can use a waste material like empty beer bottles to make an interesting and attractive feature wall.

The process of making a bottle brick is simple. Simply cut the top of the bottle to a specific length which will be half of the thickness of the wall. Remember two bottles stuck together end to end make one brick. So if each bottle is cut to 4.5 inches in height, then together they will make a 9 inch brick.

An industrail way of making glass bricks it to install a glass cutting blade on your work bench with a measure to hold it in place. Then you can cut the bottles into two pieces very quickly.

Simple dunk them into a bucket of water to clean out any major dirt, and stick them together with the help of duct tape. Once the brick is ready, it is used to make a wall, just like a brick. You can use cement mortar or lime mortar or even mud to make these walls.

The glass brick walls make an interesting and playful feature for partition walls, bathroom walls or landscape walls. The play of light both in the day and night is quite pleasing.

Sustainable architecture at Aanandaa is directed by Ar. Jitesh Malik from Studio Aureole. The integral design practice at their studio combines a commitment to environmental sensitivity with a contemporary design language and a pedagogical process. At Aanandaa, Jitesh creatively contextualised a diverse range of sustainable practices to collaboratively work towards an aesthetically enriching experience.

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