The creative minds at miniWIZ recently debuted the POLLI-Brick, a recycled polymer bottle that can be interlocked to build an incredible array of structures. Made from recycled PET bottles, the lightweight bricks offer excellent acoustic and thermal insulation and can build anything from fences and roofs to pots for plants, skylights and beautiful walls of light.
POLLI-Bricks possess incredible thermal and sound insulating characteristics in addition to an awesome strength to weight ratio, which should make them a hit with architects and builders alike. While you can’t yet get these at your local building supply mega-store, the economy, versatility and structural potential of the POLLI-Brick may just be what a struggling building market needs.
Now a Taiwan company has built a three-level exhibition hall -- EcoARK -- using about 1.5 million plastic bottles. According to Reuters, the building was commissioned by Far Eastern Group and will be donated to city government in Taipei. But what's really interesting is the fact that the objects used for the facade are more than simple plastic waste bottles. The product being used here is called Polli-Brick from Hymini.
Polli-Brick is made with recycled PET bottles -- kind of like with the 111 Navy Chair -- to create an interlocking shape that's light weight and structural at the same time. When connected, Polli-Brick almost looks like a honeycomb.
The architectural blocks are translucent and allow natural light to filter through the material. As used in the new EcoARK, the curtain wall is said to be able to withstand typhoons and earthquakes, according to The China Post.
The China Post also said EcoARK is "the world's lightest, movable, breathable environmental miracle ... it can be taken apart and reassembled at another site after the exposition." Sounds interesting ...
http://inhabitat.com/2009/01/15/polli-bricks-by-miniwiz/
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2009/01/solarbulb.php
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2010/04/interlocking-polli-brick-used-for-ecoark.html
http://inhabitat.com/2010/04/14/ecoark-pavilion-made-from-1-5-million-plastic-bottles/
http://www.miniwiz.com/
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