As architect Florian Heinzelmann traveled around Indonesia, he noticed that many villages lacked communal spaces.
That's why he — and his Netherlands-based design firm, Shau — decided to create a small public library in the village of Bandung.
Like most libraries, the goal is to foster a love of reading and encourage community members to hang out, Heinzelmann tells Tech Insider. But unlike most libraries, it's made of 2,000 used ice cream buckets.
Take a look.
Located in Bandung, Indonesia, the micro-library measures just 1,720 square feet — about half the size of a one-car garage. It was completed in July 2016.
The team ordered 2,000 used ice cream buckets from an online seller to build the walls. Besides reducing waste, using recycled materials fosters awareness of Indonesia's growing amount of plastic waste, which has been clogging waterways and beaches in recent years, Heinzelmann says.
On the facade, the buckets spell out "books are the windows to the world" in binary code, the language computers use to interpret information. The bottoms of the buckets represent ones, and the tops represent zeroes, Heinzelmann says.
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