The construction sector is a major contributor to global waste, with construction and demolition waste accounting for nearly one-third of all waste in the EU. In Spain, over 50% of this waste comes from brick and ceramic materials, while still being widely produced. This raises the question: How can we stop generating waste from the very resources we so intensively exploit? FRICKS explores how to repurpose construction waste—specifically bricks—into a new building material. It is the result of new manufacturing protocols for CDW-Brick: a geopolymer material system with controlled porosity and density. FRICKS is a lightweight, non-toxic insulation and façade system.
Partecipanti
BARCELONA, SPAIN; LUXEMBOURG CITY, LUXEMBOURG; ATHENS, GREECE
Juliana Mariz de Oliveira Simantob, São Paulo, Brazil, 1999. Vive e lavora a Barcelona, Spain.
Claudia Gowgiel, Krakow, Poland, 2001. Vive e lavora a Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Pinelopi Filothei Karali, Athens, Greece, 1996. Vive e lavora a Athens, Greece.
Authorial collaborators
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya: Areti Markopoulou, Nikol Kirova, Daniil Koshelyuk, and Aleyna Gultekin
Technical collaborators
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya: Secil Afsar, Sheikh Rizvi Riaz and Marielena Papandreou
Thanks
Yuvraj Shirke and Snehal Pare, Re-Clay(m)
