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Sustainable dance floor

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A product that captures the energy produced by people and turns it into electricity.Through movement every person produces energy, and depending on people’s weight and activity it will be 5-20 Watt. The Sustainable Dance Floor™ ...

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Cloak of silence

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Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an “acoustic cloak”, which could make objects impervious to sound waves. Being woken in the dead of night by noisy neighbours blasting out music could soon be a ...

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All you want to know about Bamboo

Published 14 years ago by materia | no responses

Dr. Pablo van der Lugt has launched his website in which all of his 7-year bamboo research (MSc, PhD at Delft University of Technology) can now be downloaded. Keywords in his research are Sustainability, LCA, ...

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Pictures on the façade

Published 14 years ago by materia | no responses

PLUS Architects worked together in cooperation with the Youth Service, Education and Society in Rotterdam with parents and the school board of the Primary school “De Pijler”. By improving and providing a more pleasant stay ...

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Stunning Triangular Skyscraper

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Herzog & de Meuron revealed Le Project Triangle which takes advantage of both solar and wind power. An incredible structure that will rise 200 meters from the Porte de Versailles in Paris. The stunning skyscraper ...

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Origami with Aluminium

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A lattice girder? A metal grid? More of an origami, created like in the purest Japanese tradition but this time without paper. Ycami has worked with sheets, yes, but aluminium ones. Two mm thick, cut, ...

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