Materializing Brick
Fall 2022 - Spring 2024, Parsons School of Design
Advisor:
Jonsara Ruth
Materials & Performance
This project is an ongoing experiment in creating flexible bio materials due to their potential to transform how we build and finish interiors.
While researching bricks for a project, I mixed leftover crushed brick to a bioplastic base and the result was this flexible, translucent fabric like material that I made into a lamp shade andhas infinite potential as bioleather or wall finish. Above, From left ro right: Repurposed crushed brick and clay; Materials mixed with base of glycerin, agar agar, potato startch and water; After three days, biomaterial is approximately 80% dry with soft, malliable texture; Completely dry biomaterial after seven days resembles leather, cut intro strips and woven together.
Further research is ongoing to test density and waterproof properties.
Brick bioleather as lampshabeProcess of developing bioplastic and bioleather with waste material such as tea, coffee ground, eggshell and brick.
Result with tea leaves in glycerin and gelatin base.