As architect Florian Heinzelmann traveled around Indonesia, he noticed that many villages lacked communal spaces.
That’s why he — and his Netherlands-based design firm, Shau — decided to create a small public library in the village of Bandung.
Like most libraries, the goal is to foster a love of reading and encourage community members to hang out, Heinzelmann tells Tech Insider. But unlike most libraries, it’s made of 2,000 used ice cream buckets.
Located in Bandung, Indonesia, the micro-library measures just 1,720 square feet — about half the size of a one-car garage. It was completed in July 2016.
On the facade, the buckets spell out “books are the windows to the world” in binary code, the language computers use to interpret information.
