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Seepje: let nature do your laundry in a nutshell

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Sooner or later, we all have to face it: doing laundry. However, while we often use laundry detergent that is brimming harmful chemicals, there is another way. The Dutch company Seepje discovered how people in ...

Test your materials knowledge in the Materia Quiz at Material Xperience

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Here at Materia we love new and innovative materials, as you may have guessed. No doubt you do the same. But have you ever wanted to test your knowledge? At Material Xperience, held from 6 ...

Sense & Sensibility

EverBlock: Life-Size Modular Building Block To Build Nearly Anything

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Do you love to redecorate every once in a while, or do you wish there was an extra wall in your house? Fans of Lego will no doubt be excited about the prospect of having ...

Manufacture

3D printed steel construction elements at Material Xperience 2017

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

3D printing has created many possibilities in various fields, such as medicine and construction. The company Arup has made use of this technique to produce a design method for critical structural steel elements for use ...

Zostera Stool: sitting on washed up seagrass

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Eelgrass is a type of seagrass that often washes up on the North Sea beaches. Governments tend to clean up the beaches and throw the material away, because they form an unsightly brown carpets, which ...

Spong3D: an adaptive 3D printed façade system

Published 8 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

With 3D printing you can create tailored products with high complexity in shape. This advantage can be exploited for the building industry too, to address urgent needs for a more sustainable built environment. The project Spong3D ...