150 000 PET bottles. A book on PET bottles in architecture

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"150 000 PET Bottles - A Book on PET Bottles in Architecture" provides a comprehensive overview how a ubiquitous waste - PET bottles - can be applied in architecture. The motivations for this use range from providing cheap housing in poor or catastrophy-hit areas to interactive installations and pieces of art. The book is based on personal experience of the authors how to use PET bottles in their experimental design studio at the Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University in Prague. The book has nine (1) How the authors became involved with PET bottles in architecture; (2) Brief history of PET material; (3) Material investigation of PET bottles; followed by comprehensive list of case studies (4) wet buildings (8 cases); (5) light structures (12 cases); (6) art (5 cases); (7) student work (7 cases); (8) parametric designs in a workshop for a PET-bottle tower (10 cases); and (9) conclusion."