Built Beverages is a juice bottle concept that I developed as part of a 3D motion design assignment.
On a family holiday to Coromandel, I came across NZ potter Barry Brickell’s large retaining walls that he had built out of wine bottles, and noted the wasted space between the cylindrical forms of the bottles.
When this wasted space is filled with concrete or mortar, it undermines the wall’s eco-friendly initiative. I became obsessed with the idea of a glass bottle that was specifically designed and optimised for reuse as an eco-brick.
The Built Beverages bottle - inspired by the humble cheese and bacon shape cracker- was designed in Blender 3D to mate closely with itself on any axis, and lock into place as a brick, needing little mortar. The bottle, once empty, can be stuffed with non-biodegradable or unrecyclable plastics to sequester plastics from the environment and increase the natural insulation of the bottle/brick. The tiling abilities of the bottle design also allow the bottle to use space more effectively, shipping more efficiently on pallets, and it is also more sturdy as a construction component.
On a family holiday to Coromandel, I came across NZ potter Barry Brickell’s large retaining walls that he had built out of wine bottles, and noted the wasted space between the cylindrical forms of the bottles.
When this wasted space is filled with concrete or mortar, it undermines the wall’s eco-friendly initiative. I became obsessed with the idea of a glass bottle that was specifically designed and optimised for reuse as an eco-brick.
The Built Beverages bottle - inspired by the humble cheese and bacon shape cracker- was designed in Blender 3D to mate closely with itself on any axis, and lock into place as a brick, needing little mortar. The bottle, once empty, can be stuffed with non-biodegradable or unrecyclable plastics to sequester plastics from the environment and increase the natural insulation of the bottle/brick. The tiling abilities of the bottle design also allow the bottle to use space more effectively, shipping more efficiently on pallets, and it is also more sturdy as a construction component.