BRICKS
- Duration June 2020 (2 months)
- Solo project
- Materials Design internship @ makerbar
- Role: Materials Research and development
- Solo project
- Materials Design internship @ makerbar
- Role: Materials Research and development
“Bricks transferred oyster shell and reservoir silt into usable constructional materials to promote the sustainability of materials usage”
CHALLENGE
In Taiwan, there are over 3 Million ton reservoir silt and around 30% of reservoir is occupied by reservoir silt.
Also, waste oyster shell increases 150 thousand per year in Taiwan. There are tons of oyster shell on the road you can see while you drive through country side.
How to deal with THEM?
This project aim to transfer oyster shell and reservoir silt into usable constructional materials to promote the sustainability of materials usage and give new life for the wastes materials.
To make it concrete and have potential to use in building materials, I started research and find the suitable chemical reaction to create strong bonding between materials.
EXPERIMENTS:
With different ratio of silts, waste shell and solvent chemicals, to test different materials characteristics including strength, embrittlement and stiffness.
OUTCOMES:
Bricks re-uses waste oyster shell and reservoir silt and make them become a new sustainable construction materials that can create different shape sculpture. In the future, if optimised materials strength, it could be potential building materials.