Shanghai Museum of Glass

impact

FEATURED PRODUCT

YiBrick Handmade

color

3486kg ceramic waste consumed ≈ 2440kg CO2

A summary
of the project

In 2022, the Shanghai Museum of Glass held an exhibition called “100%” to explore the sustainable potential of glass. The galleries are distributed throughout the museum and are made of shipping containers.

Every year, the glass studio of the Shanghai Museum of Glass produces about 1250kg of glass waste, so this time they approached us to find a way to combine the materials, and finally we decided to recycle their glass waste as well. The walls of the five container exhibition halls in the museum area are made of YiBrick, a special edition made of glass waste from Shanghai Museum of Glass and recycled ceramic materials designed by Yi. Each brick has about 0.14kg of glass waste added. The bricks will be reused as building materials for the museum after the exhibition.