Load -Bearing Products
World Bottle (WOBO ) Building Bricks
Jiilkeen Cube Construction Bricks
Vacuumized PET Bottles Construction Beams
RESOURCE
RESOURCE
RESOURCE
Glass bottles
Glass bottles
Discarded PET bottles
TYPE
TYPE
TYPE
Designed
Designed
Densified
SIZES
SIZES
SIZES
Capacity 330 or 500 ml, dimensions 80 mm × 60 mm × 140 or 220 mm
Capacity 500 ml, dimensions 100 mm × 100 mm × 100 mm
Custom
MANUFACTURER
DESIGNER
Luft & Laune, Zurich, Switzerland
Heineken International (Breweries company), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Petit Romain, Lyon, France
DESIGNER
Jiilkeen Cube, p. 134
PROJECT
John Habraken, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PROJECT
World Bottle (WOBO ), p. 130
World Bottle introduces a new recycling circuit for discarded glass bottles, whereby the design of the bottle allows for a second life cycle as a building element. The neck of one bottle slides into the bottom of the next one, creating a continuous horizontal masonry row. To increase the vertical connection, the bottles are equipped with friction nobs on both sides. About 1,000 bottles are required, each at a weight of about 220 or 330 g, to construct a 9 m2 wall area.
Jiilkeen Cubes rely on the same structural strength of the material as an ordinary bottle, but the shape is re-designed to make up for the inefficiency of spatial arrangements of conventional cylindrical shapes. The cubic form is achieved by introducing a rectangular body and pushing the bottleneck inside this boundary as well. Through their ability to be stacked in a very compact way, they can be handled just like any other brick. As the design does not provide a self-interlocking system, it requires a second material functioning as mortar.
MANUFACTURER
TRPA Treated Recycled
Plastic Aggregates Construction Aggregate RESOURCE
Discarded plastics TYPE
Transformed SIZES
Custom MANUFACTURER AND DESIGNER
DESIGNER
TEWA Technology Corporation,
Assistant Professorship of Architecture and Construction Dirk E. Hebel, ETH Zurich/ FCL Singapore, Singapore, and Zurich, Switzerland
Albuquerque, NM, USA PROJECT
PROJECT
Using all types of unsorted plastic waste, TRPA is a plastic alternative to partially replace mineral aggregates such as sand and gravel in traditional asphalt cement road pavement. In general, the produced material is a granulate of 6 mm or less in diameter. It replaces about 1–2% by weight, or 5–7% by volume, of the sand and gravel in the final mix. The end product is cheaper, lighter, and stronger than traditional asphalt cement.
Airless, p. 36
Vacuumized PET Bottles is a structural building system in which discarded plastic drinking units are packed into a prefabricated and airtight membrane tube. Put under a vacuum condition of about 22 mbar, this composite system reaches high load-bearing capacities combined with an extremely low density of 53 kg/m3. Depending on the selected membrane, the inexpensive material is able to reach a B1 fire rating and can be used for indoor and outdoor large-span spatial arrangements.
Plasphalt, p. 70
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