45.000 milk cartons used literally as lego bricks. This is the idea of the CUACS Arquitectura studio, which built an extraordinary pavilion in Spain, patiently placing them on top of each other, to honor World Recycling Day. And it entered the Guinness Book of Records for having built the largest building made entirely from recycled materials.
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45.000 milk cartons used literally as lego bricks. This is the idea of the CUACS Arquitectura studio, which built an extraordinary pavilion in Spain, patiently placing them on top of each other to honor the World Recycling Day. And thus entering the Guinness World Record for making the largest building made entirely from recycled materials.
It all stems from the collaboration between the Department of the Environment of the Government of Granada and the RESUR waste collection company for the dissemination and awareness of recycling of a particular type of waste, the milk carton, the Tetrapak. The idea was to research any constructive possibilities of this unique product of its kind. The result was formidable: a pavilion built with more than 45.000 cartons recycled from more than 100 schools of the province of Granada.
How? All it took was clamps connecting the cartons at an angle of 135 degrees - elements that can be easily separated from the packaging through standard processes in recycling plants - to transform them into the largest facility of its kind at the moment, a labyrinthine pavilion made up of two parts independent principals, a wall with a lattice variant to let in the light e a tower as a central element.
Built at a record pace of two weeks, the pavilion made entirely from custom milk cartons 30 meters long, 15 wide and 7 high. “In short, a milk carton was made like a piece of lego which allows for greater ease of assembly,” explain the builders. Finally, when everything is finished, the structure will be dismantled and its bricks shipped to the nearest recycling plant.
Roberta Ragni
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