After seven months and 1700 tyres later, the Ulwazi Educare in Delft, Cape Town, is nearing completion, and 120 preschool children are eager to get learning.
Delft, South Africa (16 May 2022) – Peter McIntosh and his team specialise in natural and sustainable building techniques while using reclaimed and recycled items like colourful wine bottles, tyres and EcoBricks. They are nearly finished building a stunning preschool in Delft.
The Ulwazi Educare is in Delft, Cape Town. The project has been making room for 120 children. The building comprises 1700 tyres, eco-bricks, cob, reclaimed materials from the film industry, glass bottles and reclaimed doors and windows. The construction for this highly-anticipated build started in September 2021.
Peter McIntosh, the founder of the Natural Building Collective, has been sharing the incredible progress of building projects they work on, including the Helderberg Nature Reserve, which was built using 8000 EcoBricks and 900 truck tyres. With that building project at an end, he and the team started working on a pre-school in Delft.
We are always fascinated to see how buildings are made using items that would take thousands of years to break down in landfills.
The tyres are from the government depot in Atlantis. The Waste Bureau donated the transport for the first load of 1000 tyres at the start of the project, and the team collected the rest as needed. To think that with just the two projects, over 2600 tyres have been repurposed into buildings.
“Construction started in September 2021, and it is being built out of earth, tyres, recycled materials such as glass bottles, eco-bricks, 2nd-hand doors and windows. One of the design features are large round manholes as windows with their ladder stairs still attached which will be cool for the kids to play in.” – Natural Building Collective
You can see some of the photos of the build below. You can find more via Facebook here. We look forward to seeing the finished building. We will be sure to share the update as soon as it is done.
Then (January 2022)
Now (May 2022)
Sources: Peter McIntosh / Natural Building Collective
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