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Aplikasi Jangka Pendek

Silikon atau ban dalam dapat digunakan sebagai metode attachment jangka pendek, tidak permanen untuk menciptakan aplikasi ecobrick yang bertahan selama beberapa bulan hingga beberapa tahun.

Karena aplikasi jangka pendek biasanya tidak ditutupi, mereka biasanya untuk penggunaan di dalam ruangan, untuk mencegah fotodegradasi UV pada botol. Aplikasi jangka pendek lebih mudah dibuat oleh orang-orang dan mempercepat penyebaran mandala dari ecobricking dan prinsip regeneratif yang mereka wakili.

Aplikasi Jangka Panjang

Teknik bangunan Earth dan Ecobrick digunakan untuk menciptakan struktur yang dapat bertahan selama bertahun-tahun atau beberapa dekade (tidak jarang untuk konstruksi tradisional bertahan selama berabad-abad!). Campuran tanah (mis. Cob, wattle and daub, adobe) digunakan untuk meletakkan ecobrick secara horizontal dan menutupi mereka sepenuhnya untuk perlindungan penuh terhadap semua bentuk degradasi.

Sangat Jangka Panjang

Aplikasi ecobrick jangka pendek dan panjang menempatkan plastik dalam lintasan spiral siklis ke masa depan, di mana kemungkinan plastik tetap aman, terjaga, dan terkandung jauh lebih besar daripada alternatif yang saat ini tersedia.

Lihat grafik berbagai jalur yang dapat diambil plastik selama 1000 tahun.

Sebelum Anda membangun dengan ecobrick, sangat penting untuk menyimpannya dengan benar. Idealnya, ecobrick disimpan di luar tanah (di lantai atau dinaikkan di atas kayu) dan sepenuhnya terlindungi dari matahari dan elemen. Ecobrick paling baik disusun secara horizontal dengan bagian bawahnya menghadap ke luar. Ini memungkinkan Anda untuk mengorganisir ecobrick Anda berdasarkan warna dan merek – yang kemudian memudahkan perencanaan proyek dan pembuatan.

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Aplikasi ecobrick yang paling mudah, tercepat, dan mungkin paling menyenangkan, adalah Modul Milstein (MMs). Ini adalah konfigurasi berbentuk heksagon dan segitiga dari ecobrick yang digunakan untuk duduk, tetapi dapat digabungkan bersama untuk membentuk satu atau dua permukaan horizontal. Aplikasi termasuk meja, tempat tidur, panggung, dll. Yang Anda butuhkan hanyalah 12 ecobrick untuk memulai! Silikon umum atau ban dalam motor dapat digunakan untuk membuat MMs. Modul Milstein Ecobrick kemudian dapat digeser ke dalam pengerahan untuk kelas, konser, pertemuan, dan lainnya untuk membuat permukaan horizontal. Mereka dapat ditumpuk satu di atas yang lain untuk menambah satu tingkat ketinggian vertikal. Mereka dapat ditumpuk dan disimpan secara vertikal untuk menghemat ruang.

🟡 Pemeliharaan

Modul harus dibersihkan sekali setahun. Modul yang rusak dapat diperbaiki dengan silikon.

🟢 Kehidupan Selanjutnya

Modul Milstein ecobrick yang digunakan dengan baik akan bertahan 2-3 tahun. Setelah waktu ini, sambungan silikon mulai melemah dan gagal. Ecobrick juga mulai kehilangan kilauannya karena warna plastik yang terkandung mulai memudar. Ini adalah kesempatan yang baik untuk beralih ke aplikasi bangunan jangka panjang di mana mereka sepenuhnya dilindungi dengan tanah.

🔴 Perhatian

Hanya untuk penggunaan di dalam ruangan. Sinar UV dari matahari akan merusak dan memudarkan ecobrick Anda dan melemahkan plastik botolnya.

Periksa halaman kami tentang berbagai variasi modul horizontal ecobrick.

So this is pretty cool – ecobricks can make LEGO-like blocks! Dieleman Modules, or DMs for short, are a way to turn bottles into modular bricks that can be stacked vertically. Sixteen ecobricks are siliconed together to make one DM module.

DMs interconnect just like Legos. They stack one upon the other and enable you to make walls, towers and columns, quickly and easily without any glue or mortar. Best Usage: Awesome for open spaces, indoor playgrounds and building structures for concerts or fairs in minutes. Can be taken apart and stored just as fast!

The DMs can then be disassembled just as easily.

🟡 Maintenance

Modules should be cleaned once a year. Broken modules can be repaired with silicone.

🟢 Next Life

Well-used DMs will last 2-3 years. After this time, the silicone joints began to weaken and to fail. Ecobricks also begin to loose their lustre as the colors of the contained plastic begin to fade. This is a good opportunity to transition them to long term building applications where they are fully protected with earth.

🔴 Caution

For indoor use only. The UV rays in sunlight will degrade and fade your DMs and weaken the ecobrick's plastic.

Check our page all about Dieleman modules.

Use the basic principles of Earth and Ecobrick Building to make outdoor stools, coffee tables and more with your ecobricks. These modules are an ideal place to start to learn the basics of Earth building. We use their construction in GEA Builder courses as a simple, non-structural start to the fundamental earth building techniques.

🟡 Maintenance

Earth modules must be move around carefully as they can crack and break.

🟢 Next Life

Once broken or cracked, modules can be destroyed and their ecobricks extracted and reused. If pure cob has been used, this too can be wet and reused in earth building projects.

🔴 Caution

Avoid building fully with cement. Cementing ecobricks make them often impossible to remove without the bottle being ruptured. Often earth modules can also be very heavy and care must be used in moving them.

Check our page on earth and ecobrick building techniques.

Ecobrick Open Spaces are for community that have completed thousands of high quality ecobricks with consistent bottle sizes and brands. These ecobricks can then be combined into an assortment of Milstein and Dieleman modules to create a diverse set of several hundred modules.

These modules can then be deployed for conferences, exhibitions, fairs, and other special events to create customized interactive spaces. These spaces can either be set up in advance or invite participants to interact, play, and create their own space.

Ecobrick communities that have amassed Open Space sets often rent out to events and venues to showcase ecobrick modular technology and regenerative principles.

🟡 Maintenance

Open space module sets should be cleaned once a year. Broken modules can be repaired with silicone.

🟢 Next Life

Well-used ecobrick modules will last 2-3 years. After this time, the silicone joints began to weaken and to fail. Ecobricks also begin to lose their lustre as the colors of the contained plastic begin to fade. This is a good opportunity to transition them to long-term building applications where they are fully protected with earth.

🔴 Caution

Open spaces should be indoor or in covered spaces only. The UV rays in sunlight will degrade and fade your ecobricks and weaken the bottle’s plastic.

Check our page all about Ecobrick Open Spaces.

Our number one choice for structural building! This method is strong, earthquake resilient, allows curved walls and designs, allows ecobricks to be recycled at the end of the construction, and relies only on 100% organic, locally-sourced materials that cost next to nothing.

Earth building was used by our ancestors to build homes and structures that have endured for centuries. This general method is known by different names in different languages and continents– cob, adobe, wattle-and-daub, etc. By using local earth, straw and sand to make the mortar for the ecobricks we can build in ways that are resilient, strong, beautiful, and thermal-retentive.

Earth building is in full resonance with our principles — it is simple and replicable, non-capital, non-petroleum, collaboration powered, cradle-to-cradle and potently regenerative. Earth building techniques are gender and age transcendent: involving men and women, young and old, and everyone in between in the building process.

Earth and Ecobrick Building is ideal for constructing simple garden spaces – playgrounds and what we call ‘food forest play parks‘.

The Ecobrick and Earth Building techniques can then be extrapolated for wall and structure construction.

The Earth Building technique can completely cover ecobricks, effectively securing them indefinitely in the construction. This keeps them safe from UV light and other forms of degradation. After 10, 20 or 100 years, when your structure comes to its end (as everything eventually does) the ecobricks can be extricated undamaged and fully repurposed.

🟡 Maintenance

Earth modules need to be regularly inspected. Cracks and breaks to the wall are best quickly repaired to avoid erosion to the structure.

🟢 Next Life

Earth and ecobrick constructions disassemble into crumbled cob mortar which can be returned to the earth without problem (or reused in another earth construction!). The ecobricks can be removed from the crumbled cob to be reused in any way.

🔴 Caution

It’s outside of the corporate construction paradigm: your bank won’t give you a mortgage, insurance companies won’t cover it, and your hands and feet will get dirty.

Check our page on the core concepts of Earth & Ecobrick Building.

A revolutionary low-tech system to enable the construction of versatile, practical and stunning geometric matrixes with minimal skills or capital using nothing but reclaimed plastic.

Remolded from locally-sourced, reclaimed-plastic, ecoJoiners enable ecobricks to be interconnected in a wide variety of ways. Simple ecoJoiners (green) enable vertices of any length. Hex and penta hubs (red and pink) enable lattices with the help of pupJoiners (orange). All are held fast with sliders (yellow) that takes advantage of an ecobrick's slight compressibility to lock constructions rigidly in place-- all the while ensuring any construction can be easily taken apart and each piece can be used again and again.

Coming in mid-2024.

It is important not to forget our responsibility when building with plastic. Ecobricks represent large amounts of secured plastic, and if our constructions lack planning and maintenance, there is the risk of the plastic escaping loose into the biosphere. Planning for the maintenance and the end of the construction is a key part of plastic sequestration!

Short-Term Maintenance

Ecobrick furniture and modules need regular cleaning and repair. Our GEA Trainer Team who have several hundred ecobrick modules that they regularly rent out to cities and exhibitions, spend one day a year cleaning their modules with a high powered hose and soap. They also dismantle weak modules and repair them with silicone.

Part of ensuring the longevity of ecobrick modules is to train those who use the modules how to handle them. Modules should always be moved with two hands. This is especially important with ecobrick Dieleman lego which new users are often tempted to grab with one hand.

Long-Term maintenance

Earth and Ecobrick builds often represent large amounts of secured plastic. When building on government or community land, it is key to establish a long term maintenance agreement with the custodians of the property. This agreement must include yearly checkups and repairs and also a plan for the destruction of the construction to ensure the indefinite integrity of the ecobricks.

Access our free Community Custodianship Agreements for Ecobrick Earth Parks and Buildings.

People around the world are building all sorts of great and unique things with their ecobrick! Did you know that Ecobricks float really well? We can’t wait to see the first ecobrick boats and islands. Have you seen or developed useful applications? Please share with us, or help our team develop this page further. Share your photos on the web with the hashtag #ecobricks.

From baseball bats to boats, the sky is the limit on what you can use ecobricks for! Ecobricks can be used for getting fit, for games and more.