The house is made of 30,000 glass bottles

Having worked in Vietnam in design projects for some parts of Saigon South, District 7, Dr. Ridwan Kamil, an Indonesian, has a special design: building his house with 30,000 glass bottles .

Dr. Ridwan Kamil - Photo: Minh Tri

Located in Bilangan Cigadung, northern Bandung, Indonesia, Kamil's home is a tourist attraction. 30,000 beverage bottles were collected by Kamil for six months and took two years to build.'My house is very warm. I always wanted to make the house feel really comfortable and relaxing ' - Kamil shared.

The house has a small yard. With Kamil, this small yard helps the house get natural ventilation and get light in the daytime. He said: 'The friendly aspect of the house is the use of seemingly discarded items to create a new home'.

Graduating from the Department of Architecture at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, Kamil obtained his doctorate in urban design at the University of California, USA. He paid special attention to the creative industry, an industry that is being emphasized around the world. Beginning in our own region of Bandung, Kamil urges people to participate in creative workshops. He established the City's 'Creative Forum', together with young intellectuals in the region, organized many programs from festivals, creative centers, park upgrades, and networks of businesses, creative promotion, green design in TP .

The house is made of 30,000 glass bottles - Photo: Dr. Ridwan Kamil provides

'If you want to grow quickly, everyone must join hands. That's why I created a forum ' - Kamil said. The forum is not only a hub for creative ideas and their development, but also helps people recognize potential ideas, create economic values. From the forum, the Bandung government realized that they could not attract visitors by what the city had to do, but it had to be further improved.

Having the opportunity to meet TP officials, Kamil stressed that eco-design, recycled and energy-saving products are the most important elements in design. And the design of Kamil's buildings in Bandung is towards environmental friendliness, in which Tarumanegara University, West Jakarta, Kamil has designed the campus of the school for students to meet friends, relax, read books . instead of being completely devoted to parking.

Back in Vietnam to attend a seminar on creative industry (organized by the British Council), Kamil said: 'I think Vietnam has a developing economy in Southeast Asia. This is a transitional time, we need to show clearly Hanoi, Saigon is how to be mixed with other cities. Creators need to actively connect, not wait until the government starts'.