{"id":223,"date":"2013-06-14T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/good-god-a-sunny-day-would-be-gorgeous-in-a-house-made-of-heineken-bottles\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:38:21","slug":"good-god-a-sunny-day-would-be-gorgeous-in-a-house-made-of-heineken-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/06\/good-god-a-sunny-day-would-be-gorgeous-in-a-house-made-of-heineken-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Good God! A Sunny Day Would Be Gorgeous in a House Made of Heineken Bottles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3490\/3300645265_8aff051a06_z.jpg\" width=400><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/438400152.r.cdn.myinstantcdn.com.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/heineken-wobo-brick-house.jpg\" width=500><br \/>\n<img src=http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9Zle5-YQlpw\/SPnaT03J28I\/AAAAAAAAB5k\/WQcIKYChVu8\/s320\/wobo2.jpg\" align=left hspace=10 vspace=15><br \/>\n<a title=\"HEINEKEN WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick heineken wobo brick - Gallery Page 3 \u2013 Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building\" href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/heineken-wobo-the-brick-that-holds-beer\/heineken-wobo-brick-house\/?extend=1\">HEINEKEN WOBO: A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick \u2013 Inhabitat &#8211; Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=blkq>Envisioned by beer brewer Alfred Heineken and designed by Dutch architect John Habraken, the \u201cbrick that holds beer\u201d was ahead of its ecodesign time, letting beer lovers and builders alike drink and design all in one sitting.<br \/>\nMr. Heineken\u2019s idea came after a visit to the Caribbean where he saw two problems: beaches littered with bottles and a lack of affordable building materials. The WOBO became his vision to solve both the recycling and housing challenges that he had witnessed on the islands.<br \/>\nThe final WOBO design came in two sizes \u2013 350 and 500 mm versions that were meant to lay horizontally, interlock and layout in the same manner as \u2018brick and mortar\u2019 construction. One production run in 1963 yielded 100,000 bottles some of which were used to build a small shed on Mr. Heineken\u2019s estate in Noordwijk, Netherlands. One of the construction challenges \u201cwas to find a way in which corners and openings could be made without cutting bottles,\u201d said Mr. Habraken.\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3012\/4058215599_130ae14c6b_o.jpg\" width=450><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}