'Green brick' awarded top honour at IIT-Bombay
Growing vegetation in bricks may sound futuristic, but this idea has won Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay’s competition — ‘10 great ideas to change the world in the next 50 years’.
An alumnus of IIT-Bombay, and currently a design consultant, Sanjeev Shekhar, has designed a ‘green brick’ which can have specific native plants or seeds integrated in it. The aim is to redefine building blocks and substitute conventional bricks or concrete blocks with a ‘living’ brick for mass use.
He has proposed that these “intelligent, modular and structural living bricks” will become a source of nutrition, vitamins and herbal medicine. It will be part structural, part biological, and will be integral to the building structure. Each home can become an independent seed bank.
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