Houses made from used-tires is a reality around the Colombian capital. This environment-friendly initiative has lead to the use of about 9,000 old tires.

Posada and her team use a range of tires from semi trucks to cars. They stack them together around iron bars to create round structures that are at once solid and flexible, well insulated against the heat and cold, but also rubbery enough to withstand the earthquakes common in this seismically active Andes region. Posada said, "The houses have rounded cement-and-steel ceilings over the bedrooms and kitchen, and flat wood-plank ceilings over the living room and dining room. Both are covered by another layer of tires, making an almost non-degradable, impermeable roof." The team is also using glass bottles to make skylights in the bedrooms, inserting them vertically in the concrete ceilings to create a pixellated stained-glass effect.
Posada said, "These houses are made with reused materials, but they’re also beautiful, airy, with more indirect light." She has so far used about 9,000 old tires to make the walls, roofs, terraces and steps of her rubber ’igloos’.
Source-Medindia