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    Water-Based Digital Fabrication

    Nature is a water-mediated ecosystem. Through water Nature builds and demolishes as it enables life and guides material transformation over time.  Omnipresent in inanimate and living matter, water is Nature’s construction medium that gives shape, structure and function to all ...
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    New Material Made From Desert Sand Could Offer Low-Carbon Alternative To Concrete

    A team of scientists in the UK have developed a biodegradable construction material made from desert sand – a resource that has until now been useless for construction. Called Finite, the material was developed by a group from Imperial College London. It is ...
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    Troll’s Peak Cabin Features Facades And Roofs Clad In Contrasting Materials

    Oslo studio Rever & Drage Architects used a variety of cladding materials and traditional construction techniques to distinguish the different functional spaces at this mountain cabin in Norway’s Sunndal region. Rever & Drage Architects designed the Cabin at Troll’s Peak for an active family who ...
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    Modern Day Building Blocks

    The Garden Apt. i?s a collaboration between Paris based Miriam Josi and New York based Stella Lee Prowse. The two product designers began collaborating during their time at Parsons The New School For Design in New York City. Graduating in ...
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    Innovative heat-dispersing clay bricks help keep homes naturally cool

    A new innovative brick is paving the way towards more comfortable, affordable, and sustainable architectural solutions in hot climates. Colombian architects Miguel Niño and Johanna Navarro of Sumart Diseño y Arquitectura SAS designed BT – Bloque Termodisipador (HB – Heatsink Brick), ...
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    Bamboo fibre is stronger and cheaper than steel, says Dirk Hebel

    World Architecture Festival 2015: bamboo could “revolutionise the building industry” and replace steel as the dominant reinforcing material, according to a professor who is working on new applications for the grass. Speaking at WAF in Singapore today, Dirk Hebel said ...
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    TU Delft develops self-healing bioconcrete

    After nine years of research and development, a team from TU Delft presented their self-healing concrete prototype that regenerates itself due to the addition of bacteria in its composition. These bacteria have the ability to “break” some specific components in the ...
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    Sustainable bricks made from plastic bottles

    The alarming increase of plastic waste is a constant worry that affects the environment, wildlife and consequently, humans. Every year, millions of tons of plastic is accumulated and all of that takes around 500 years to decompose. Faced with this problem, the ...
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    Slaughter-free leather will make our world ‘more cultured’

    More than 60 billion land animals are currently required to supply the demands of six billion people for meat and leather. Farming those animals requires 38 percent of all ice-free land, eight percent of global water and emits 14 percent ...