Recycled building

Bureau SLA and Overtreders W used only borrowed or recycled materials for this Dutch Design Week pavilion, the venue for Good Design for a Bad World

Recycled Building Materials It could be argued that most building materials are recycled: wood, brick, and stone, after all, are just reuses of other materials. But today, driven by economic and environmental forces as well as aesthetic considerations, builders are experimenting with a wide variety of recycled and reclaimed materials – wood used in previous buildings, discarded shipping containers, cans, bottles, tires, and phone books. Many modern buildings make use of just about anything…

Image 4 of 4 from gallery of Giving Demolished Building Materials a New Life through Recycling. Resource Rows, which used panels of brickwork taken from the demolition of Copenhagen’s Carlsberg brewery.. Image Courtesy of Lendager Group

Building a home can be a very intensive process, from the planning to the materials purchasing to the actual construction. And some innovative people have made the process very unique and earth-conscious. From buildings made out of plastic bottles, to housed inside shipping containers, to using old airplane wings, some homes around the country and world are completely recycled and eco-friendly. Probably my favorite recycled home is Malibu, California's Wing House. Photo: ABC7, Los Angeles…

Long before tiny houses were a lifestyle trend, architects, designers, and artists were creating small-scale buildings that allowed them to experiment...

These “buildings” are made from plastic bottles, glue, paint, and colored paper.

Designed by two students from the University of Vienna, this modular house made with recycled pallets is ingenius.

Image 26 of 43 from gallery of How to Make a Facade with Recycled Materials: 21 Notable Examples. Photograph by Nguyen Tien Thanh

KLab Architecture created a dynamic, ‘living’ facade for a building in Athens, made of wooden pallets that open and close according to climate conditions.