BINDING

The Objective

This is where we attempt to explore different binding materials in order to create an easy and affordable version of the cork tiles. As of right now, cork is an expensive material to work with considering the location of the tree Quercus Suber, where cork is grown, and also the limited resource. Although it is sustainable in which the tree grows more bark (what the cork actually is), it grows slowly. 

Since there are already many previous experimentations done on cork, for example Amorim cork with binding different materials like recycled rubber, we decided to experiments on cheap cork granules with different adhesives.

Unfortunately we were not able to experiment with a wide variety of binding materials as we wanted due to time constraints and the unavailability of certain binding materials, but we were able to use 3 different binding materials.

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