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from M.Arch Design for Manufacture Portfolio at Bartlett, UCL

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The main key of the project of the very beginning was Sustainability. We started the project by focusing on different types of waste.

after testing and working with different materials such as molten resin, grinded plastic and casting slip, we finally found Stone as an interesting and unexplored field amongst materials.

Around 60% of total generated waste is made by CD&E industry. The treatment of waste is usually either recycling and recovery or landfill.

We decided to investigate a path within which we would be able to reuse this raw waste instead of spending so much time and energy to recycle it and make to another material.

The potential questions were: How can we add value propositions in this process? How can we turn such an un-used and irregular material to an construction unit so that it could be used as it is? How can we upcycle the stone with the least amount of energy instead of recycling it.

Marble Quarry, Cutting and blasting processes creating chunks of un-usable material Irregular stones