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No. 01Material

The pile, looked at properly

First day at the depot with a camera and a notebook instead of a delivery list.

Fig. 01Broken floor tile from unsellable stock, tipped onto a plank and sorted by condition. Sharp or crumbling pieces are set aside.

The damaged-goods corner is not one pile. It is tile with a chipped corner next to tile cracked through, paving with a broken edge next to paving that crumbles when lifted. The word 'unsellable' flattens all of that.

A senior worker walked through what actually happens: most of it waits, some of it is given away, some of it is simply in the way. The question for the week is not what to make. It is how to tell the two kinds of broken apart.

Fig. 02Material study. Reclaimed construction fragments, sorted by damage and explored as components for public-use pieces.