…take a deep breath
Archive for October, 2007
Urine’s in the air…
Posted in News on 30 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mmm, WC fresh
Posted in News on 29 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Monday morning. There they are, drying away, hot n’ stinkin’. Emptied half full dehumidifier, turned 120 bricks…
Group meeting, paperwork was discussed, along with colour palettes, landscape or square, bagging up bricks for crush testing, recycled paper, and who was doing what…
Honesty is the best policy
Posted in Urine on 29 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This definitely goes in the ‘Urine’ category.
The making of
Posted in Process on 28 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
120 crumbly lumps
Posted in News on 27 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Maths, window, out of… 8 rows of 15 is not 130 bricks, anyway:
Finished! Thanks to all for their surreptitious donations, we have completed the production stages of the project, and swept up most of the dust and sand…
Our blocks are now in their own hot drying room up on top of the Tower, where [...]
Road trip no. 2
Posted in News on 27 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The responses of the two common clay minerals in soils, namely kaolinite and montmorillonite, to varying physicochemical factors are quite drastic and opposite.”
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That article, from Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Issue 5, Vol. 35, 1999, would [...]
The mental fallout
Posted in News on 24 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Each of us have our own way of dealing with trauma. Tom alleviated his post-mixing-blues thusly:
Scratch n’ Sniff
Posted in Uncategorizable on 24 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Go on, I dare ya
‘It’s a no-go!’
Posted in News on 23 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Or so say some. They happen to be the ones who made the large batches of urine bricks today, so it might be worth listening to them, unless they’re sensitive Westerners accustomed to their hygiene bubble? Would anyone want to do this on a much larger scale? Perhaps we don’t realise how [...]
What soil? What consistency?
Posted in News on 23 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To find out, we ran a few tests, see video below…
We were aiming to decide upon a suitable clay content and a suitable liquid content for the main experiment, in order to remove as many variables as possible. Batches of dry ’soil’ were made up with 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% and 30% clay mixed [...]
