(CNN) Why build with traditional bricks and mortar when you can use something a little more unconventional? That's the ethos behind one company in the Netherlands that uses cardboard to create their eco-friendly houses. Wikkelhouse, meaning "wrapped house" in Dutch, produces houses wrapped in layer upon layer of cardboard. Co-director Oep Schilling launched the company back in 2012 with his partner and the inventor of the concept, Rene Snel. "When I saw the beauty and atheistics of the house and the machine used to build it, I thought, 'Wow, this has potential.'

Source: CNN November 25, 2016 13:07 UTC