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YiBrick Permeable

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Medium or Format: Regenerated Ceramic Permeable Brick
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Dimensions and/or Technical Information: 193*95*42mm
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Recycling Ceramic waste into circular products.

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Setting up a perameable YiBrick pavement

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Sample pavement

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5000 tons of ceramic waste material collected in Jingdezhen

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Yi Design

Company Description

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Short Description of Work

China is the largest producer of ceramics in the world and produces 18 million tons of ceramic waste each year. We start by collecting, collaborating with local producers to sort and remove their waste.

YiBrick is a regenerated ceramic permeable brick consisting of 97% recycled ceramic waste, ie 54 kg of ceramic waste recycled per m2.
Size: 193 x 95 x 42 mm
Permeability Coefficient: 7.74*10^(-2) cm/s Combustion Performance: Level A (Incombustibility)

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Tell us about your creative practice, and how your work engages with Chinese design, society, environment or culture.

Caroline Cheng is the cofounder of Yi Design and is determined to find a circular solution for ceramic waste. She is an artist and curator, whose promotion of Chinese ceramic arts over decades has earned renown in China and throughout the world. She has held solo exhibitions in Sotheby's Hong Kong (2013) and New York (2015). Her work has been collected by the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Cheng has received prizes for her work in
the Westerwald Ceramics Museum, Germany (2010), the Clay and Glass Film Festival in
Montpellier France (2010), the Mino International Ceramic Award 2017, and also
received the “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the American National Council on
Education for the CeramicArts (NCECA) in 2014 and the Japan Good Design Award
Community Development in 2020.
Caroline Cheng is also the owner of the Pottery Workshop.

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Yi Design
Hong Kong, Jingdezhen and Shanghai

Under the leadership of Cheng Caroline, Yi Design transforms industrial ceramic waste into decorative, structural and customizable tiles and building tiles, providing recyclable options for the interior and construction industries.

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