THE SPE-SHELL BRICK PROJECT

This project demonstrates how mussels can be grown, consumed and re-made into bio-bricks in-situ. The bio-bricks will then further used in constructing affordable housing along the Limehouse Cut, taking up the disserted and dilapidated Former Caird & Rayner Ltd Warehouse. Similar to my Bio-machine in Brief one, my Brief two building complex continues to embody similar sustainable principles: from food to construction materials. Such proposal includes a mussel hatchery, a mussel farm and a mussel restaurant inside the existing structure of the derelict. As it was a ship component manufacturing factory, the connection of the structure to the canal is recelebrated and reused in these new programmes. At the vacant land next to the warehouse, I proposed to build bio-brick factories and loft housings for small families. All structures will be built with the bio-bricks which the formula is improved from the one made in the previous brief. In short, this is an aquafarming, catering, manufacturing and housing project that synergise to make a complete zero-waste food consumption system.