13 houses made of strange building materials

There are different houses. And if one of us is looking for more expensive, but posh, then some decide to build a house themselves... and from improvised materials. Unfortunately, many people do this not just out of a whim, but because they cannot afford a full-fledged housing for some reason. In any case, all these houses are quite unusual and all, without exception, are built from unusual building materials.

1. A copy of the oldest coffee shop in Nivelles, Belgium. This store alone is made from 14,000 cases of Carlsberg beer. Construction began in August 2007 in an attempt to set a new world record for the largest beer crate building. 

2. In 2009, in Surrey, the host of "Top Gear" James May and about 1000 volunteers built the world's first full-fledged Lego house. The construction took 3.3 million plastic bricks. The house has a toilet and a shower. 

3. A Chinese worker built this unusual " egg " house because he could not afford to rent an apartment in Beijing. This booth is made of bamboo sticks, bags of seeds and wooden sawdust. The house is located in the courtyard of a residential complex. 

4. Artist Tito Ingenieri from Argentina built a house of more than 30 thousand bottles. 

5. A Palestinian in southern Gaza built a house out of sandbags. He used sand instead of cement, steel and gravel, because there were not enough building materials. 

6. And here is a grass house on the Hardangervidda plateau in Norway. 

7. This Nissen hut, originally built as a barracks for soldiers of the Second World War, has turned into a modern house thanks to the skill and invention of Ann Lewis and her husband. In October 2006, the house was put up for sale for almost 500,000 pounds. 

8. This house was built almost entirely from garbage, including used car tires. 

9. The China House Porcelain Museum in the coastal town of Tianjin is covered with millions of pieces of antique porcelain and 20 tons of crystal. The construction took five years.

10. The corridor at the ice hotel in Sweden – the world's first ice hotel. The temperature in the rooms is-5 ° C.

11. The "container City" in East London is an old cargo containers that have been turned into residential premises, including studios for artists. With the help of such equipment, the construction company "Urban Space Management" has created more than 15 such houses.

12. 76-year-old Maria Pons on the background of her house made of plastic bottles in the village of El Borbollon, in 2007. She built a house out of bottles because she couldn't afford to buy a more comfortable home.

13. Caroline Barry built a house out of bales of straw, lumber and plastic bottles. The house is not electrified, all power comes from solar panels, a hydro turbine and a wind turbine.