April 13, 2011
Bottle Structures - Jackie Stack and Indonesia
I recently found a blog post about bottle houses from a 'green' blog called Pixie Gas. The post is called 'Don’t keep Your Enthusiasm About Reusing Bottled Up! 20 Bottle Structures', with several structures that I'd never heard of. Names are mentioned, but there are no links. Maddening.
There are 2 structures mentioned that I had heard of, and I have links!
One has to do with the work of Jackie Stack Lagakos, who has her own business building 'Bottle Structures'. Jackie contacted me a few months ago because she came across the original bottle wall post from 2007.
Some examples of Jackie's work -
Hotai Bottle Bench aka hip hop Buddha - 1998
and a detail
a more recent example
Last Stop For Miles And Trane - 2004
Jacki also teaches the occasional workshop and I asked her to let me know when she has any details on upcoming workshops.
The other example of a newer bottle structure is this Indonesian bottle house, designed and owned by architect Ridwan Kamil and done in a more '20th century modernist' style, with a very neat and tidy design.