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UNWASTED
Navn
Anna Maria Sand Jensen
Uddannelsesgrad
Professionsbachelor
Fagfelt
Design
Institut
Bygningskunst og Design
Program
Crafts in Glass and Ceramics
År
2024
In a world facing mounting environmental challenges, it is crucial to infuse design practices with sustainable principles. This project aims to pioneer solutions that address these challenges functionally while elevating architectural aesthetics and honoring material craftsmanship.Focusing on sustainability, the project redefines the concept by considering residual materials as vehicles for sensory appreciation and adding a protective element to the built environment.
By repurposing resources for new architectural contexts, it aspires to inspire a shift towards more sustainable and captivating design. Reimagining waste materials, it demonstrates how sensory richness can deepen connections between individuals, their surroundings, and their values.
Exploring diverse waste streams, including agriculture, food residue, and community waste, the project harnesses ceramics as a solution. It focuses on designing protective ceramic cladding for building facades, aligning with principles of re-building rather than new construction. Cladding can enhance both new and existing buildings by re-cladding or adding to existing facades.
Amid material shortages, the project uses waste-based resources to create contemporary ceramic elements that balance architectural functionality and sensory delight.
Unwasted - Mockup Wall - Final work
Unwasted tile - close up
Unwasted - Process video
Unwasted - Process video
Unwasted - final tiles
Eggshells, raw material for Unwasted
Unwasted tile
Frame - This framework served as a dynamic structure, allowing me to navigate between different focal points while maintaining a central focus on the project.
4 key ingredients in the Unwasted project.
Clay samples 65-100% waste materials.
Raw Materials - Eggshells, hay, ashes, glass. Some of the main ingredients in the Unwasted project. Photo: I DO ART Agency
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Waste is not waste if UNWASTED.
Unwasted - Final tiles
MAKING MATERIAL FROM WASTE
Red and blue broken ceramic roof tiles, getting crushed and becoming new material. Some of the cladding tiles consist of between 60-85% pure crushed ceramic waste.
"THE INITIATIVE IS MEANT TO MOTIVATE AND INSPIRE OTHERS TO RECONSIDER WHAT IS WASTE—OR POTENTIALLY UNWASTEABLE—BEFORE DISPOSING IT." - Anna Maria Sand Jensen
Designing cladding patterns, inspired by the lines from raindrops on windows, using the program Rhino.
Lasercut tools, used for making the cladding.
Cladding illustrated
Close-up , Cladding tile from 70% Ceramic waste
Unwasted tile, close up
Unwasted - Final Mockup wall
Collecting waste materials, at a local farm on the island of Bornholm.
Crushing machine.
Working tools for the prototypes of cladding. Raindrops drawn in digital form, lasercut and used as stamps.
Waste Material Tests, used for glaze and clay.
Rust waste glaze - Glaze made from for instance: eggshells, rust from recycling station, hay.
At the Bornholm’s Waste Treatment, going through the containers consisting a variety of waste from metal waste, to glass and broken terracotta pots.
Mini Recycling Station
The setup of the Mini Recycling Station, made for the Unwasted project. Active for 3,5 months at the ceramic workshop at The Royal Danish Academy
THE UNWASTED CLADDING DESIGN AIMS FOR AESTHETIC APPEAL THROUGH FORM, COLOR, AND TEXTURE, ALONG WITH FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS LIKE PROTECTION, INSULATION, AND DURABILITY.
"I'VE BEEN FASCINATED BY THE PHENOMENA OF WATER FLOW AROUND ME, SUCH AS INDEPENDENT STREAMS AND PATTERNS. WATCHING RAINDROPS FORM LINES ON A CAR WINDOW CAPTIVATED ME WITH THEIR SIMPLICITY AND ELEGANCE, INSPIRING ME TO SEE THESE LINES AS POWERFUL DESIGN ELEMENTS." - Anna Maria Sand Jensen
Cladding in process, drying.
Process of making the rain-drop pattern on the cladding tiles.
Eggshell cladding close up.
In the workshop, smoothing out the material made from waste.
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Raw materials for Unwasted - And the Unwasted book
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