Ellie Birkhead, from England, graduated with a master's degree in design from the Eindhoven Design Institute. She has researched and launched the construction brick products are the agricultural waste such as straw, hair, horse dung, glass pieces ... With the desire, her kind of brick will be the solution for the future. For the agricultural industry as well as the local industry, the further is the meaning of a green environment and less pollution.
Ellie shared, her bricks were made from leftover hair from the hairdresser's shop, straw and lamb removed, horse stools from the stables, glass bottles from local bars, brewing
Hair is used to make unbaked bricks, in the form of fibers, also known as brick, usually made of straw. Brick made of wool and horse manure is similarly made.
Brick from ash is fired, straw changes brick color. Similarly, when adding scrap, glass also produces different colors and glazes. The granular material burned when fired to produce the final product is brick with small holes such as honeycomb.
All of the materials are from Chiltern Hills, which used to be the center of brick production in the UK. Previously, most of the houses here were built with traditional orange-red brick.
Birkhead, who came from Buckinghamshire, worked in the handicraft and traditional industries are in danger of being in England. In a video promoting her project, she poses the question of whether it is possible to overcome the pressure of globalization to build a new future for the local industry.
"Brick is not just a material that can match any building and has the ability to change the look of a brick," says Birkhead. a region. "
She added: "The colorful variety of bricks immediately tells you its origin. Brick imported from abroad or elsewhere will lose its link and diversity."
Birkhead discovered that Chilterns was a small-scale production center, where households shared the material and utilized each other's scrap. Thus, she wanted to create a new link, creating a unique brick production model, contributing to the maintenance of the local craft.
"This project shows a view of local production that can be applied anywhere," the female designer shared.
