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Sponge Brick / Brick

Sponge Brick

Sponge Brick is a transitional design of sponge city for greenbelt. beacause, rebuilding the old city to a sponge city is fraught with difficulties. So we design an brick that can save part of rain. As the soil gets hot and dry, Evaporation of water in sponge brick allows roots in the soil to absorb. in this way, we Increase utilization of rain and save the water used for watering at the same time. It's a little work but a big start for those old cities.

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South China Agriculture University

South China Agriculture University
Zhanjiang, China

David Zheng,
South China Agriculture University

Xiaoyan Li,
South China Agriculture University

Xue Gong,
South China Agriculture University

Yu Cheng,
South China Agriculture University

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