Many producers of building products have standardised their processes in such a way that they produce their product in the, for them, most efficient way. The remaining materials are recycled again. For example, wrongly cut glass, chipped panes or panes of glass that do not fit the standard size go into the glass container and are processed again into glass, left over bricks are crushed and used in another brick or used as road fill.

Can these residual flows not be applied directly? Is there a way to intercept these flows and change the production lines of the producers? Are we able to come up with new products and create new value for these mostly high quality materials?

With the Floating Bricks we combine two residual flows. On the one hand rejects from an indoor wall system producer that don’t fit their module size and on the other hand rejected brick strips from a brick producer.

The front facade of the house can be fully opened with two Floating Bricks doors, in the house you can sleep in a bed or in the mesh under the attic. The ordered glue dots create a sixties wallpaper on the interior of the house. Curtains made from recycled PET bottles are giving privacy to the users and the romantic experience of a four poster bed in the same time. The shadow of the bricks appear as a brick pattern on the curtains while lightened from the outside.

The house is standing on short posts and is lifted 40 cm above the ground.