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Tito Ingenieri, from Quilmes - Argentina, built his house out of six million empty bottles over a period of 19 years. His main motivation was the accessibility of scrap materials: “I didn’t have any other way to make my house and this was easy enough to do… Scrap iron and the remnants of other materials [...]

There is a really interesting lab at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture. The Centre for Architecural structures and Technology, C.A.S.T. Not only is it an acronym but also the main part of their research, forming and casting of reinforced concrete using fabric forms.