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Beata Szczurek

Uddannelsesgrad

Kandidat

Fagområde

Arkitektur

Program

Arkitekturens Teknologi

År

2023

Udmærkelser

Duravit

Project description

Through a series of experiments and multiple production methods, the project aims at optimizing geometry and manufacturing of bricks with use of reclaimed construction waste such as crushed bricks as well as by-products such as fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag. The new sustainable joint-free brick design introduces ambient-cured bathroom wall system, providing both a brick, a tile and a waterproofing in one, hence the name – brick tile.

BUILDING SYSTEM AND DESIGN OF GEOPOLYMER BRICK TILE

Bathroom constructed with geopolymer brick tile

3D representation of a bathroom fully constructed with geopolymer brick tiles

Bathroom wall elevation

Floor plan of a bathroom

Floor-wall junction detail

Exploded isometric of wall-floor junction

The 1:1 model of the brick tile system - back side with visible marks of geopolymer casting

The 1:1 model of the brick tile system - front side with the overlapping brick-tiles covering the horizontal joints

Introduction of two brick modules

Two main brick types - geopolymer brick tile and bottom brick

Tongue side of the groove and tongue brick joint

Groove side of the groove and tongue brick joint

Corner buildup - three iterations

Geopolymer brick tile production

Models and forms created as a part of design process

Foto documentation of design development process

Iterative design development of a brick tile geometry

The Research Through Design method has driven the development of geopolymer brick tile geometry.

The media supporting the development of the brick have been following: sketches, photos, extruding by hand, metal press as well as an extruder, laser cutting in metal and wood, creating MDF forms, self-hardening clay prototypes and standard red clay models, etc.
Selected methods and iterations have been presented in the slideshows below.

Extruding by hand and with use of metal press

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MDF form for manual extruding of clay

Compressing clay into the form

Lifting MDF form layers one by one (form 1)

Lifting MDF form layers one by one (form 2)

Extruding clay with use of metal press at metal workshop with use of negative and positive brick model

Extruding with use of extruder and metal lasercut form, postproduction of bricks, glazing and firing

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Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Iteration 3

Lasercutting a metal form for extruder

Extruding the clay through a metal form

Extruding long sausage of clay

Dividing the long clay sausage into small elements

Polishing the bricks by rubbing them against smooth stone countertop with use of water

Applying glaze onto fired bricks

Firing glazed bricks in oven in 1020 degrees

3D printing of the brick tile geometry prototype

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Digital model of first dimensioned brick tile prototype

3D printinig of the brick tile prototype with use of PLA

3D printed brick tile prototype

GEOPOLYMER EXPERIMENTS

All geopolymer types that have been tested: three to the left - fly ash based and the other two - slag based

Geopolymer production and experiments

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Porotherm blocks leftovers from previous semester used in production of geopolymer

Contruction waste and by-products used in produciton of geopolymer - sand, crushed bricks and fly-as/slag

Crushed porotherm blocks

Cylindrical geopolymer specimens casted in PVC pipes

Cylindrical geopolymer specimens taken out of their forms after three days of curing

Compression test performed on one of the geopolymers. The highest obtained compression strength - min. 4.11 MPa

$Typical specimen fracture during compression test$

Typical specimen fracture during compression test

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I motivationen lyder det: "Beata Szczureks projekt demonstrerer ... at teglblokkens livscyklus kan forlænges ved at kombinere det knuste murstensaffald med geopolymer til en støbemasse, der kan anvendes som et nær CO2-neutralt alternativ til traditionel beton eller brændte tegl. Projektet udvikler metoder som anvender affald til et nyt produkt – bæredygtig soltørrede mursten fliser med særlig geometri og æstetik. Parallelt med tekniske undersøgelser af geopolymeropskrifter og trykstyrkeprøver, efterprøver Szczurek geopolymerblandingens potentialer i en vidtfavnende arbejdsproces, der resulterer i et klassisk og afklaret design af vådrumstegl."

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