Articles
LightCatcher: bringing more daylight into your building
Lately, much attention is given to the health benefits or natural light. Since many people work in offices or other buildings, using many windows can provide the necessary light, but making extra windows is not ...
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Wikkelhouse: Tiny house made of cardboard
Lately, more and more people are choosing to downsize the space they live in, by moving into so-called tiny houses. As the name implies, tiny houses are, in fact, tiny, usually somewhere between 9 and ...
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Animal free leather on World Meat Free Day
Today (12 June) is World Meat Free Day to draw attention to the bad effects eating so much meat has on the planet. Producing meat produces a lot of carbon emissions and takes up a ...
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Apparition: soft and transparent cow-skin leather
Creating transparent and supple cow leather has been a challenge. It has been possible with smaller hides of goats and sheep, but this leather was hard like parchment, so not suitable for garments, and could ...
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Recreating the structure of a conch shell by 3D printing on World Oceans Day
Today (8 June) is World Oceans Day. The ocean is an important source for materials, and we are not just talking about ocean plastic or fishing nets that we throw in ourselves. Examples of things ...
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Prototype II: a modular shelter for living in space
Countless of books have been written about space travel and living on other planets. We now seem to be closer than ever to actually realise the latter so we need to be prepared. A while ...
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