- Indian Architects Design Toilet Module From Recycled Sustainable Blocks
- Each module is made up of silica composite flat planks, concrete, mild steel, silica composite Lego bricks, and smaller quantities of HDHMR board, PVC pipes, and recycled marble chips.
- Project: Toilet 001
- Location: Amritsar, Punjab,
- India
- Architects:
- R + D Studio
- Typology:
- Public Architecture
- Area: 155ft²
- Graphics © Abhishek Singh
- Images © Suryan/ Dang
Text description by the architects
The construction industry at large holds immense power to reshape and provide sustainable solutions to the world’s needs at achieving a decent living standard. One such example is India’s first 100% recyclable toilet made in Amritsar.Â
The construction industry at large holds immense power to reshape and provide sustainable solutions to the world’s needs at achieving a decent living standard. One such example is India’s first 100% recyclable toilet made in Amritsar.
The design of the toilet was conceived by making use of 100% recyclable materials such as SCBs, PVC pipes, MS angles, HDHMR Boards etc. The Sustainable Composite Block is a sustainable and recyclable building material that is made from plastic waste and harmful foundry dust. It takes the two major wastes – foundry dust, and single use plastic- and makes it into a product. The unique property of the block is that it can be brought down and then sent back to the SPB Unit to be shredded back and re-extruded to make brand-new block. The mechanism of the product justifies all the requirements to become a stronger and quicker aid to facilitate this initiative.Â
The toilet was constructed using two products made of SCB, namely, flat planks and lego bricks. A total of 1000 flat planks and 150 lego bricks go into making a single unit of the toilet. These blocks are completely customizable and reusable, thus increasing the efficiency of this toilet as a sustainable solution to the problem.Â
The modular unit is made on a framework of MS T-channel and MS flat plates in the walls and ceiling. All sides are then aesthetically covered with 15mm thick SCB planks and the inside partitions are made with lego bricks. The planks are painted from the outside with a Tin sheet door on the front. The construction system is simple yet elegant to be used as a module and can be quickly assembled or dismantled as required. One module of size 3500mm x 4150mm x 3000mm is made up of 31% Silica composite Flat planks, 27% concrete, 16% Mild steel, 11% Silica composite Lego bricks, and smaller quantities of HDHMR Board, PVC Pipes, and Recycled marble chips.
Construction requirements, either massive or minuscule, offer an opportunity to use efficient alternative materials that can change the way we view the industry. This project thus proves to be the ground-breaking movement that triggers a major transition that we desperately need.
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