Tires in landscaping

Looking to bring inexpensive interest to your gardens? These DIY ideas bring repurposed tires to new life for added pops of color and use in your yard.

The interior features paintings, sculptures and found objects that form obstacles for visitors trying to navigate the space.

WHAT ABOUT OTHER USES FOR OLD TIRES? In Anytown, USA (or worldwide) you'll find more free tires than you'll know what to do with. Just ask any autobody or tire place- they'll be THRILLED to give them to you as they have to PAY for their disposal in most cases. Yes, most have seen the famous "Earthships" in Taos, New Mexico that Michael Reynolds has developed and messed with for decades (a smaller version is in the first two shots below), but what about OTHER USES FOR OLD TIRES??? ("Garbage…

As we live on a steep slope we’ve had to build a lot of retaining walls in order to create functionalilty around access, water management and food production. We’ve used a range of techniques to do this including working with old car tyres to build a big earthship retaining wall directly near our house. Earthship construction is a technique of building developed by Amercian architect, Mike Reynolds. He’s famous for using ‘rubbish’ and earth as building materials. We love his work. We chose…

cumul is an art collective dedicated to the creation of installations, which are simultaneously of a striking and harmonious complexity.

Pneumàtic was founded by artists OOSS, Iago Buceta, and Mateu Targa for the street art festival Ús Barcelona. The idea behind the cut salvaged tire installations was to create works that tested the traditional uses of architecture, playing with the audience’s understanding of what is just beyond their physical grasp. The works, which are all placed in linear or circular arrangements, also test the viewer’s association with architecture, giving a playful tactility to the spaces they occupy…

Driving a vehicle you know you have to change your tires every 2-3 years depending on how much distance you have been driving. Now, what happens to the used

Interested in learning more about this topic and more social and sustainable ways of doing architecture? Apply now for our Postgraduate! DISCLAIMER [This article shows the development of the first step of a new prototype experimented in Critical Concrete. During the conception of the green...