AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Home
GOALS
Sustainable Cities & Communities, Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
Building materials, Bricks
COUNTRY
Netherlands
DESIGNED BY
Conscious Designs
WEBSITE
https://www.consciousdesigns.nl/modular-urban-furniture
UniBrick
a brick made of recycled polypropylene and polyethylene for building houses without skilled labour
The UniBrick has been designed for the project Circular Communities For Housing. Using the research fund received from the Dopper Foundation, the first prototype was made, designed in Delft, produced in Rotterdam, with the help of Frans Taminiau, the founder of Community Plastics. The entire process of production is shown in the video below. Six kilos of waste plastic has been recycled to make this brick. 12 liters of oil was used to produce the plastic (2liters oil = 1kg plastic), incinerating this would equal to 72 kg of CO2, an average house produces that much CO2 in 2 days. A 55m2 house can be built using around 2000 of these bricks.