Urban Terrazzo Berlin
Whenever an old building has to be demolished or its core partially removed, an enormous amount of demolition waste is produced.
What seems like a pile of rubble, which usually ends up on our local dump sites, can actually be the beginning of a great new material story ...
Urban Terrazzo is an innovative material which transforms the remains of architectural debris into a new surface material for architecture and design.
Urban waste – such as concrete, bricks and other building materials – is carefully selected and reassembled by the principles of traditional terrazzo-making, supported by contemporary technological innovation. Ultra-High-Performance Concrete gives structural stability to old remains, while grounded pigments from old bricks preserve the unique character of the former architecture. The urban waste is analyzed by its color, structure and visual quality to become the basis for a new unique piece of Urban Terrazzo.
From origin to original.
Urban Terrazzo
DESIGN AND CONCEPT
LUISA RUBISCH & RASA WEBER
THEY FEED OFF BUILDINGS
RESEARCH AT G.TECZ GMBH
SUPPORTET BY G.TECZ GMBH, BERLINER SENAT FÜR UMWELT, VERKEHR UND KLIMASCHUTZ, FESTOOL, DYCKERHOFF, POMA MASCHINEN- UND ANLAGENBAU GMBH, BBK WERKSTÄTTEN
PHOTOGRAPHY HANNES WIEDEMANN AND THEY FEED OFF BUILDINGS
VIDEO SVEN GUTJAHR
MATERIALS "URBAN TERRAZZO"
GROUNDED BRICK PIGMENT, CONCRETE, UHPC, OLD CONCRETE AND OTHER DEMOLITION WASTE
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