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A furniture collection made from biocomposite
Austrian product designer Philipp Aduatz launched a new furniture collection made of a fibre-reinforced biocomposite. The aim of the project is to maximise the use of renewable materials, resulting in a composite material with a ...
Read more >A modular trainer designed for disassembly
Sportswear brand Camper released their Roku trainer, a shoe that consists of six parts and is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled. Roku means six in Japanese, referring to the interchangeable six parts of ...
Read more >An invisibility shield made of recycled materials
Two years after their first invisibility shield, UK-based Invisibility Shield Co. launched a 2.0 version of their product, now made of recycled and recyclable materials. The first shield, which you can read about here, was ...
Read more >A wood beam lattice façade
Dutch architectural practices DELVA and ZJA designed an event venue, which features a wood beam lattice façade and is located on new coastal reinforcement. Called SILT, the venue is located in Middelkerke, Belgium, and hosts ...
Read more >The power of biobased building materials in renovations
Researchers at ETH Zürich researched the most effective renovation strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and found that using biobased building materials like straw and hemp have a lot of potential. In Switzerland, about 2.8 ...
Read more >A quick-to-construct modular building system
Quadra is a quick-to-assemble and affordable modular buildings system that uses a minimum amount of materials. The system consists of standard sandwich construction panels, which can be made of any type of material, from cardboard ...
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