Plastic Think Tank

ConstructLab provides a social and experimental laboratory to research material flows, recycling and building properties. It results in an investigation on a new standard brick, applied on a vault construction. A sequence of five residencies aim to find the recipe to turn plastic into gold and to raise, out of hundreds of plastic bricks, a collective arch. ConstructLab collaborates with designers, builders or artists, who possess the same passion for plastic transformations, to take part in this experimentation and to contribute to the adventure.
The Think Tank is the first moment of the active research, which wishes to define a strategy for the arch construction and the plastic brick’s process and to bring ideas together for an assembling system of the arch.
This meeting is connecting the responsible people for the support structure, for the material, machine and brick related residency and the engineers. It result in a simulation of the evolution of the PlasticLab, which will take place on site. We understand and define the outcome that is needed for the following residencies and organise a clear calendar and expectations for the different tests regarding the bricks. We define and specify an assembling system, which also determines the bricks sizes and proportions. Those inputs give a better focus for building the machines and collecting the plastic resources.

List of the residencies:

0# PLASTIC THINK TANK
21st April

1# MACHINE-MAKING
12th June – 08th July

2# SUBSTANTIAL BRICK LAB
26th June – 08th July

3# PLAYFUL PLASTIC LAB
10th July – 15th July

4# BRICK ASSEMBLY LAB
17th July – 29th July

5# BUILDING FESTIVAL
21th August – 02th September

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