This document discusses do-it-yourself architecture and construction using recycled and natural materials. It provides examples of DIY housing projects from around the world that reuse items like windows, doors, bottles, cans, shipping containers, tubes, and natural materials like wood, straw, earth, and cob. These projects showcase affordable, sustainable building methods with little to no budget that empower communities and encourage shared economies.

1. DIY
architecture

2. Do It Youself
construction art
communityno budget
DIY
Do not pay builders, involve architects

3. wikihouse.cc shared economy
Be lazy like a fox
Share global,
manufacture local
modular
New Zealand

4. reused windows/ doors
Brazil

5. air-dried cob + wood
Kyiv, Ukraine

6. straw bale
Australia

7. wood + straw bale
New Mexico, USA

8. hemp + lime
Kyiv, Ukraine

9. wood + natural mud + cob
Kentucky, USA

10. cordwood
Oklahoma, USA

11. PET bottles
Nigeria

12. glass bottles
Aragon, Spain

13. PET bottle panels
Panama

14. PET bottle caps
Siberia, Russia

15. sand filled PET bottle
India

16. used shipping container
San Antonio, Texas

17. recycled sewage tubes
Mexico

18. recycled soup cans
Mexico

19. recycled windows
West Virginia, USA

20. recycled pellets
France

21. recycled pellets + shipping container
Curacaví, Chile

22. reclaimed wood
Texas, USA

23. recycles paper tubes
Sichuan, China

24. earthbag + greenroof
Czech Republic

25. earthbag
USA