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Slag Blocks
Sudbury, Ontario

Precious metals have long been sought and extracted from ore, at which point we have usually discarded the remaining material as “waste”. Now, we are researching the material to build awareness of the environmental water-leaching repercussions and identifying value for slag as a resources rather than classifying slag as waste. We can appreciate the residual ore for its environmental strengths when we design for its ideal reuse.

Our architectural prototype is being iterated in order to identify uses and techniques for slag that are materially appropriate leading to a unique method of building with slag unlike conventional construction strategies. We are currently investigating the material properties of the cast cube and are planning for a simple use of a few cubes as a simple starting point to demonstrate the basic premise. The next phase will entail more precise structural testing to generate a single story structural pavillion. This will significantly broaden the potential applications for slag.

PERIOD 2015
STRUCTURE Slag, Steel Plate Forms
SCALE Variable

TEAM Michael Danielson
EXHIBITION Dynamic Earth (postponed)
FABRICATION VALE
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