The bricks will be manufactured on a brownfield site in Gent, using a clean simple production process which could easily be replicated in other urban settings there are no resultant emissions, by-products or waste. As part of the museum’s progressive engagement programme, residents and those visiting the city will be given the unique opportunity to help make a brick that will go on to build the new museum wing. The team have worked closely alongside the Design Museum Gent to produce a highly crafted, bespoke material object that embodies the culture and ethos of the institution, challenging the material qualities and aesthetic properties of a traditional brick and adding to the lineage of design objects displayed and cared for by the museum. This fabrication process, coupled with the use of recycled composites results in a brick with 0.17kg CO2e/kg, just 1/3 the embodied carbon of a Belgian clay fired brick. The design team worked in close collaboration to specify a unique material composition that is low in embodied carbon and will deliver the required strength and resilience for use in external conditions. The hydraulic lime captures CO2 from the atmosphere as the bricks cure, sequestering carbon over the life of the building. The Gent Waste Brick is cured rather than fired, gaining strength from carbonation. The waste materials are meticulously filtered and sorted at a production centre in the centre of Gent before being pressed into their specified shape and size. All composite materials have been carefully selected to create a white tone. The pale coloured brick and white mortar is composed of locally sourced municipal waste streams as aggregate including crushed concrete and white glass with lime as the primary binding agent. The building’s façade has been designed to reference the light-toned civic buildings in Gent. The project has been funded through a generous grant from Circular Flanders and sogent, on behalf of the city of Gent, and researched in collaboration with Design Museum Gent, sogent, Carmody Groarke, BC Materials, Local Works Studio and TRANS architects.ĭesign challenges and environmental impact To lower the embodied carbon used in the project’s construction and meet the client's brief for the new extension, a lime-cured, local waste brick has been developed and certified for use on the building’s façade. Due to start on site later in the year, the new wing will house galleries and event spaces to broaden the museum’s cultural programming and visitor outreach. It is a different idea of the web, which we might call slow web.Īs part of a masterplan to transform the Design Museum Gent, the museum is undertaking a major renovation project to extend its existing buildings. banners, pop-ups or other distracting noise. No 'click me,' 'tweet me, 'share me,” 'like me.' No advertising. Behind all this there is the certainty that we can do better than the fast, distracted web we know today, where the prevailing business model is: 'you make money only if you manage to distract your readers from the contents of your own site.' With divisare we want to offer the possibility, instead, of perceiving content without distractions. A long, patient job of cataloguing, done by hand: image after image, project after project, post after post. Every Collection in our Atlas tells a particular story, conveys a specific viewpoint from which to observe the last 20 years of contemporary architecture. Our model was the bookcase, on whose shelves we have gathered and continue to collect hundreds and hundreds of publications by theme. So we began to build divisare not vertically, but horizontally. May be because we wanted to distinguish divisare from the web that is condemned to a sort of vertical communication, always with the newest architecture at the top of the page, as the 'cover story,' 'the focus.'Ĭontent that was destined, just like the oh-so-new architecture that had just preceded it a few hours earlier, to rapidly slide down, day after day, lower and lower, in a vertical plunge towards the scrapheap of page 2.

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