In 2020, a Brazilian mother and daughter started collecting discarded bottles from beaches. Years later, more than 8,000 glass bottles had found a new purpose as part of the walls of their unusual seven-bedroom home, creating a striking glow when sunlight hits the house at sunrise.
What began as a simple effort to collect waste eventually turned into a long-term construction project on Itamaracá Island in Brazil. Edna Dantas and her daughter, Maria Gabrieli Dantas, spent years collecting bottles and other discarded materials and finding ways to reuse them.
