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- Welcome to the Bottle School Wiki!
Please, Read This First for information on how to use this Wiki, and how to provide feedback.
Please contact us if you require a PDF version of the Bottle School Manual.
Please email heenal@hugitforward.org if you have any questions or if you need any help.
Introduction
- What are bottle schools?
- How we started building bottle schools
- The purpose of this manual
- Why build a bottle school?
- Why NOT to build a bottle school
- What do bottle schools cost?
- Why has the cost of bottle schools increased?
Selecting a site
- Community
- Participation
- Things to consider
- Finding a site
- Collecting bottles
- Environmental education
- Skilled & Unskilled Labor
Construction Steps: 1 - 22
This is to serve as a general guide to the execution of bottle school construction. This manual is not designed to teach you how to build a bottle school single-handed. Your job will be to bring many people together with different roles and skills to make the project work well. We're not expecting you to know how to mix cement or tie rebar, but a good understanding of the basic principles will make you a better facilitator. All specs can be found in the plans.
- Bottles – collection & collaboration
- Bottle Size Variation Chart
- Making “eco-bricks”
- Clear and level land
- Foundation
- Pins
- Columns and Beams
- Lower Beams
- Columns
- Columns and beams
- Columns & Beams for Doors
- Diagrams for Columns & Beams
- Floor Beam
- Intermediate and top beam
- Roof
- Chicken Wire 1
- Chicken Wire 2
- Placing Bottles in the Wall
- Plaster
- Floor
- Doors & Windows
- Finishes
Download Architectural Plans to help you. You may need to modify these to fit your particular design requirements.
