My whole life feels like it's made with selotape-like fixes!
Building a house can be similar by last many years also!
http://freeschool.0id.org/house
(Not with Concrete but Clay Earth mostly!)
Earth is reusable because you put it in water and reshape and re-affix it :)
No problem to 'throw away' AND reuse when 'broken' to reshape into new form!
Handy :)
shhhhhHHHH!... don't tell anyone the magic of Earth, Clay, Water!