Ceramics with waste

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. 

his framework served as a dynamic structure, allowing me to navigate between different focal points while maintaining a central focus on the project.
Frame - This framework served as a dynamic structure, allowing me to navigate between different focal points while maintaining a central focus on the project.
Ashes, crushed ceramic waste, eggshells and glass.
4 key ingredients in the Unwasted project.
A color palette of stacked clay test, made from using waste resources . New aesthetics , tactility and expression.
Clay samples 65-100% waste materials.
raw materials
Raw Materials - Eggshells, hay, ashes, glass. Some of the main ingredients in the Unwasted project. Photo: I DO ART Agency

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 UNWASTED CLADDING DESIGN AIMS FOR AESTHETIC APPEAL THROUGH FORM, COLOR, AND TEXTURE, ALONG WITH FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS LIKE PROTECTION, INSULATION, AND DURABILITY.

 

A big part of the working process, consist of crushing waste materials into finer powders. The powders is used for material research, to create new glaze and clay.
Crushing machine.
Working tools
Working tools for the prototypes of cladding. Raindrops drawn in digital form, lasercut and used as stamps.
Material tests. Samples of fired waste materials, used for clay and glazes.
Waste Material Tests, used for glaze and clay.
Glaze made from for instance: eggshells, rust from recycling station, hay.
Rust waste glaze - Glaze made from for instance: eggshells, rust from recycling station, hay.

Waste is not waste if UNWASTED.


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 INITIATIVE IS MEANT TO MOTIVATE AND INSPIRE OTHERS TO RECONSIDER WHAT IS WASTE—OR POTENTIALLY UNWASTEABLE—BEFORE DISPOSING IT." - Anna Maria Sand Jensen

Buckets with waste
Buckets with waste , donated for the Unwasted project by fellow ceramic students at the Royal Danish Academy.
The 4 categories set up for the Mini Recycling Station, at the ceramic workshop at the Royal Danish Academy.
The 4 categories set up for the Mini Recycling Station, at the ceramic workshop at the Royal Danish Academy.
As part of the Bachelor Project , I set up a Mini Recycling Station at the Ceramic workshop. To inspire, and motivate fellow students to donate their waste instead of throwing it in the dumpster.
Sign at the Mini Recycling Station
The setup for the Mini Recycling Station. During the 3,5 months of the Bachelor Project, I took care of the recycling station, and used the materials as my raw materials for the Unwasted project.
Mini Recycling Station - At the Royal Danish Academy ceramic workshop
Anna Maria Sand Jensen
At the Bornholm’s Waste Treatment, going through the containers consisting a variety of waste from metal waste, to glass and broken terracotta pots.

"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

Designing cladding patterns, inspired by the lines from raindrops on windows, using the program Rhino.
Designing cladding patterns, inspired by the lines from raindrops on windows, using the program Rhino.
Lasercut tools in wood, used for making and designing the cladding.
Lasercut tools, used for making the cladding.
Cladding illustrated
Cladding illustrated
Close-up , Cladding tile from Ceramic waste
Close-up , Cladding tile from 70% Ceramic waste

THE WASTE RESOURCES GIVE A LOT OF NEW TEXTURE, SURFACE AND COLOURS TO THE CERAMIC CLADDING. 

Cladding, close up. From hayash and eggshells.
Cladding, close up - from hay and eggshells.
Cladding in process.
Cladding in process, drying.
Process of making cladding tiles from waste materials.
Process of making the rain-drop pattern on the cladding tiles.
Eggshell cladding.
Eggshell cladding close up.
Cladding making process.
In the workshop, smoothing out the material made from waste.
Cladding types.
Stack of cladding with wide range of different types and textures.
Hayash cladding.
Hayash cladding.
By: Anna Maria Sand Jensen
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Small samples of waste turned into new materials.Sta
Clay test, with eggshells, crushed glass and ceramic waste.
24 billeder
Glaze made from for instance: eggshells, rust from recycling station, hay.
Anna Maria Sand Jensen
Unwasted - Materials
Eggshell cladding.
Cladding making process.
Collecting waste materials, at a local farm on the island of Bornholm.
Durability testing the cladding at the workshop with fire .
Lasercut tools in wood, used for making and designing the cladding.
A big part of the working process, consist of crushing waste materials into finer powders. The powders is used for material research, to create new glaze and clay.
Material tests. Samples of fired waste materials, used for clay and glazes.
Mixed in various ways, the raw materials can be turned into new materials.
Sampels consisting of different amounts of waste materials, such as eggshells, crushed ceramic waste, glass and ashes.
Working tools
A wide range of colors , solely made with waste materials 65-100%.
Made from eggshell waste, among other waste materials a new kind of clay body can be possible.
A palette of many diverse clay types, translucent , strong, speckled dark and light.
In the Material Research , is made many small tests for seeing the reactions of the materials when fired.
A color palette of stacked clay test, made from using waste resources . New aesthetics , tactility and expression.
Ashes, crushed ceramic waste, eggshells and glass.
Glazeroom
Material research
Glass and ceramic waste , cladding tile.
Test samples, dissolving.
Claytest, Unwasted project.
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Det Kongelige Akademi understøtter FN’s verdensmål

Siden 2017 har Det Kongelige Akademi arbejdet med FN’s verdensmål. Det afspejler sig i forskning, undervisning og afgangsprojekter. Dette projekt har forholdt sig til følgende FN-mål
GRANT

GRANT: Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond - Travel Grant

Granted a travel grant from Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond, for the Unwasted project june 2024. 

GRANT

Frøken Marie Månssons Legat og Hotelejer Anders Månsson og Hustru Hanne Månssons Mindelegat - 2024

The scholarship was awarded by the scholarship committee at The Royal Academy, for educational travel stay abroad for study purposes.

July 2024

CV

I am a maker specializing in waste material research within design and craft. In addition to my studies, I have contributed to architectural research projects. Motivated by a desire to make a positive impact, I focus on communicating essential messages through creative projects, leveraging creativity, visual acuity, and a keen eye for detail, texture, and color.

Konkurrencer, publikationer og priser

Comission work- The Dialogue Prize, Folkemødet 2023

Being chosen at OPEN CALL, to design the Dialogue Prize 2023 for the Political event Folkemødet - the Peoples Meeting of Denmark.

The statuette consisting of recycled ceramic, recycled glass and recycled wood.
Uddannelse og relevante kurser
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BA - Crafts - Glass and Ceramics Royal Danish Academy Institutue for Archetecture, Design and Conservation

Professional bachelor's degree program at The Royal Danish Academy, with specializing in ceramic and glass design and craft. An international education, taught in English.
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INTERN - Bente Skjøtgaard

Assisting ceramic artist Bente Skjøttgard in making and developing ceramic art pieces for the exhibition ALCHYMIST CONVENTION. Developing and researching in natural materials, and alternative use based on old recipes of Jean Gallie.
Andre aktiviteter
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EXHIBITION - Bachelor Project ‘24 - Crafts in Glass and Ceramics

Bachelor Exhibition 2024, together with 18 other Bachelor Students.

Bornholm's Center of Craftst - Grønbechsgård, Hasle
27.06.2024 – 27.08.2024

CLAY Ceramic Museum Denmark, Middelfart
06.09.2024 – 24.11.2024
Ceramics
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EXHIBITION - LAUNCHING EVENT: SocialSpace, NGO Solo Exhibition

Collaboration with non-profit mental health organization Social Space. Participating with exhibiting 4 ceramic and glass works for the Launching Events, in Copenhagen URBAN13 and Dypaang in Århus, Denmark.
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PLANETARY BOUNDARIES - Rethinking Architecture and Design

Curated exhibition by Susanne Jøker , KADK Copenhagen .
Project “ The Aesthetic of Crushing” being chosen at OPEN CALL , as a total of 25 other projects, for the exhibition. Recycled crushed industrial waste, made into architectural modules and elements. Assisting and working on the project w. Architect Jacob-Sebastian Bang and Nina Husted Ericsen.
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GROUP EXHIBTION - Vejen Art Museum , ALCHEMISTS’ CONVENTION

A research-based project and group exhibition drawing inspiration, of sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen’s (1861–1941) . Working in collaborating with The Conservation Center making XRF scanning analyses of ceramics at the museum.

Exhibiting series of 5 own works “ Characteristics of a tree”, as part of assisting artist Bente Skjøttgaard.
Erhvervserfaring
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Assistant European Ceramic Context 2024

Assisting Curator Susanne Jøker for European Ceramic Context 2024.

Creating Knowledge Sharing sessions for the Triennial event, as well as hosting the panel debates.

Title of the Triennial of 2024: How can ceramic makers, designers and artists adapt to more sustainable practices?
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Research assistant, Exhibition project "The Aesthetic of Crushing"

Working with architect Jacob-Sebastian Bang and Nina Husted Ericsen.

Research based work w. reusing , and crushing ceramic construction waste , for exhibition “The Aesthetic of Crushing “. Project chosen to be exhibited at Planetary Boundaries - Rethinking Architecture and Design.
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KUV - Student assistant Artistic Research - The Danish Ministry of Culture

Kunstneriskudviklingsvirksomhed . Artistic Research, funded by The Danish Ministry of Culture. Developing a Health Glazes Library w. Ceramic artist Christina Schou Hansen.
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