When we started our random plans for the house, we wanted to keep the large windows to the front. This was not just to maximize passive solar heat from the sun, but also to keep the daylight to the sunny side of the house.However, the back wall of the house would have the early morning sun, so we decided to do some bottle art installation. We didn't want a design that looked like anything in particular, just some organic, flowing shapes that would move along the wall.
Because of the thickness of the exterior walls (70 cm) the bottle necks were cut off and the remains were placed cut side together to form a pair and inserted in plastic gutter piping.They were then painstakingly placed in position, using adobe mortar to fix them firm.
The result, with the morning sun shining through the bottles is quite stunning.......
Encouraged by this success, Ed went on to do two more installations along the back wall of the corridor......
The installations look a little rough at the moment, but once the walls are rendered with earth, they will be much sharper.
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