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Water-Driven Breathing Skin is a semi-passive ventilation system
Researchers at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) developed Water-Driven Breathing Skin, a breathing skin-like material that performs open-close behaviour to facilitate passive ventilation and cooling effect for outdoor spaces. Homeostasis is the ...
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The world’s first inhabited 3D printed house
A social housing building in France, created by the University of Nantes and partners in the so-called YHNOVA BatiPrint3D project, is the world’s first 3D printed house to be inhabited. The 95 square metre (1022 ...
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On the road to a sustainable and durable future
Various initiatives are experimenting with new materials to build more sustainable roads in the future. Many roads are made from asphalt or concrete, but neither are sustainable materials. Black asphalt adds to urban heat island, ...
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Organico: Furniture made from hemp, casein and slaked lime
Designer Philipp Hainke designed a series of furniture called Organico made from a sandwich material, consisting of hemp fibres, casein and slaked lime. The composite material includes calcium hydroxide, commonly known as slaked lime, which ...
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Nanowood material insulates as well as Styrofoam
Researchers at the University of Maryland created a new, sustainable and lightweight nanowood material that is as insulating as Styrofoam, but stronger and more environmentally friendly. Nanowood consists of tiny wood fibres. From these fibres, ...
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New coating makes natural fabrics waterproof
Researchers at MIT developed a new coating that not only adds water-repellency to natural fabrics, but is also more effective than coatings that are currently available. For everyone who has ever been stuck in the ...
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