Material Properties
After taking week eight to test the development of
my
own
mycelium
composite
brick
and
following guidance given to me in my tutorial I wanted this week to create a clear foundation for the research I had done to date. It was important to me to be able to visually represent the properties of the different materials I had been
looking
into
in
a
way
in
which
they
would be easily comparable.
I decided to create fact sheets on each of the materials and processes which I had previously outlined as potentially viable for development in Ireland including dowel laminated timber, mycelium composites and construction waste. In addition to this I wanted to further explore the idea of recycled concrete as a tributary of
construction
waste
which
is
something
unto itself. The process of reusing concrete was something which I found very interesting in
my
research
and
was
something
which
continuously came up in tutorials. As a control I
also
cork,
wanted although
to not
create viable
a for
fact
sheet
production
for in
Ireland I viewed it as an important point of comparison
because of its exceptionally low
levels of embodied energy.
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