Articles
A battery made of natural stone
The system CESAR, developed by Cees van Nimwegen and his Dutch company NICE developments, consists of a basalt-based battery that can store large quantities of electricity generated by solar panels and wind turbines. In order ...
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Regulating indoor temperature with water-filled windows
Dr Matyas Gutai of Loughborough University in the UK developed water-filled glass, which can be used to heat and cool structures, reducing energy used and carbon emissions. Heating and cooling building generates massive carbon emissions. ...
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Combining concrete 3D printing and 3D printed formwork
Researchers at Digital Building Technologies institute of ETH Zürich developed a method called Fast Complexity that combines the fabrication speed of concrete 3D printing with the geometric precision of reusable 3D printed formwork to create ...
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How to grow your own biodegradable IKEA furniture
IKEA dedicated research and design lab SPACE10’s resident architects Katya Bryskina and Tomás Clavijo explored how the famous IKEA FRAKTA shopping bag might be used as a tool to grow, cast and shape furniture using ...
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A modular hospital made of wood and metal “Velcro”
Canadian architect Tye Farrow used a Velcro-like metal material called Grip Metal by Canadian company Nucap to design a wooden modular template for temporary hospital amidst the Corona crisis. Grip Metal (which you can find ...
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Copper: the coronavirus’s worst enemy?
In a time when we try to touch as little surfaces as possible and if we must, we prefer to disinfect them beforehand, more and more people are looking at copper as a miracle material, ...
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