Egyptian builds his house full of waste

 By Julia Chang                

In his simple house on the outskirts of Cairo, Timour El Hadidi sat down to tell an interesting story about the materials he used to build it, from A to Z, from the waste.

Every corner in the house mimics nature, and everything in the place is made of waste, even the seemingly corroded table woods, taken out of the sea and reused.

The entire house, which took four years to complete, was built of waste, even its walls that protect it from cold and heat, says El-Hadidi, the owner of the house in the Sheikh Zayed area near the Egyptian capital.

El-Hadidi hopes to expand the implementation of his idea, which aims to recycle solid waste and rationalize its consumption safely and inexpensively.

Speaking to Sky News Arabia, El-Hadidi said: "If the project is carried out on a larger scale, it will save a lot because it is waste without wish and we will just move it."

"We tried more than one kind of waste. We started with plastic bottles filled with sand, and we used glass bottles, car tires and old wood from houses or palaces. The main and new material here in the house is concrete," he said.

An unusual design the house looked like, even to its owners who used to live in the upscale Zamalek neighborhood, but this place is relaxed away from the crowded and polluted Cairo.

"Life here is very different, quiet and we can talk to each other in a low voice and sit at night without any noise, so it is more like a country life," said El-Hadidi's wife, Haniyhe.