The Brief
Working with teachers to integrate a workshop on ‘waste’ into the curriculum and produce a legacy product designed and built by the children from the waste materials they collected from home.
Client
Lauriston Primary School
The Outcomes
Theory – 1 day:
- Learning about waste, landfill and waste as a resource
- Learning about clay and earth building
- How to develop ideas into 3D models
Practical – 3 days
- Make cob, cob bricks and super strength cob sausages – aka corbels
- Make 3d designs for their bench ideas, a final design was chosen
- Make bottle bricks from plastic bottles and wrappers such as old crisp packets
- Turn plastic bottles into roof tiles
- How to work as a design and building team
- About dinosaurs
The Technical
- 6 Recycled car tires
- Coppiced Hazel rods
- 3 tonnes of grey, brown London clay and pink clay
- Recycled from the local pottery
- 6 tons sand
- 1 ton drainage gravel
- 200 bottles for roof
- 150 bottles for infill
More Projects
the drawing shed
- Courses
- Ovens
First Hand Experiences
- Courses
- Events
Surrey Docks Sculpted Wall
- Courses
- Renders
- Roofs
- Sculpted Structures
Lauriston School Waste Bench
- Courses
- Renders
- Roofs
- Sculpted Structures