Articles
Transparent bamboo
Researchers at Central South University of Forestry and Technology (CSUFT) in China developed a way to make bamboo transparent, to use as a flame-retardant alternative for silica glass. Silica glass, the type of glass commonly ...
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A room divider made of wood and eggshell ceramics
Dutch design studio Atelier LVDW designed a room divider, or wall object, made of wood and the studio’s eggshell ceramic material. Atelier LVDW’s eggshell ceramic material, which you can find in our collection here, is, ...
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A stool ‘designed’ by plastic-eating mealworms
British designer William Eliot used plastic-eating mealworms to eat through polystyrene. The resulting design for a stool was then 3D printed in black-coloured sand. To make the stool called Digested Objects, Eliot used 150 larvae ...
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A structure made of rammed earth and wood
Japanese architectural studio Tono Mirai Architects designed a structure made of rammed earth and wood that encloses public toilets in a park in Miyoshi, Japan. Called Toiletowa, the structure has a rammed earth wall made ...
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A poncho made of recycled nylon that turns into a tent
As part of Nike’s ISPA Collection, the Metamorph Poncho is a multifunctional poncho that turns into a tent, and is made of recycled nylon fibres. The poncho’s water-repellant material, recycled nylon, keeps its wearer dry. ...
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A concrete 3D printed warehouse
German companies Putzmeister and Züblin produced a warehouse with complete and supporting concrete walls from a 3D concrete printer for what they say is the first time. Called STRABAG BMTI (STRABAG Baumaschinentechnik International), the warehouse ...
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