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- Shell Mycelium: using mycelium to build and destroy constructionsNo building lasts forever. While there are solutions in the make, such as giving the materials a passport during construction for reuse later, a…
- Muss-Tell: Bioregional Acoustic Design Using Invasive Mussel ShellsMuss-Tell is a circular, bioregional design project by material designer and researcher Damla Ertem, developed as part of her MA Material Futures at Central…
- Peanut shell wins Material of the Year awardPeanut Shell Board by Kokoboard has won the Material of the Year award. From a shortlist of ten top-quality new materials, the post-harvest bio-composite…
- Ecoshell: Sustainable Tiles Made from Oyster Shells and Fish Bones for Coastal ArchitectureDesigner Yingfei Zhuo has developed Ecoshell, an innovative line of building tiles made from oyster shells and fish bones. This sustainable material offers a…
- Crack-resistant concrete inspired by shellsResearchers at the University of Princeton in the US developed a new cement composite that is 17 times more crack-resistant, which was inspired by…
- A timber and polycarbonate deployable grid shellDesigned by Spanish architectural studio Map13 Barcelona, in collaboration with Dutch Summum Engineering and Swiss Edyta Augustynowicz, the Portalen Pavilion is a public art…
- Sewn Timber Shell uses sewing to create a wooden structureThe so-called Sewn Timber Shell, developed by researchers from the University of Stuttgart and Tongji University, investigates the use of robotics and sensing mechanisms…
- 3D Printing with Macadamia Nut ShellsResearchers at the University of Sydney are studying ways of turning waste macadamia nut shells and other byproducts from the forestry and agricultural industries…
- Precrete: Sustainable Concrete from Oyster ShellsAll rivers in England are now rated in “bad” ecological condition. In Kent, heavy sewage discharges have damaged local shellfish waters. Designer Jacob Tucker…
- Fishing nets turned into 3D printed shellsIn a new project called Second Nature, Rotterdam based research and design studio The New Raw in collaboration with Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in Athens…
- Sea shells for better building materialsSeashells have done an exemplary job of protecting their inhabitants for around a hundred million years, so perhaps it isn’t surprising that scientists and…
- A Memorial Crafted from Pet Ashes and Crushed ShellsResting Reef is pioneering a unique solution for pet memorials by combining pet ashes with crushed shells to create sustainable, underwater reef urns. The…
- 3D printed wave break modules made of local shell wasteAustralian multidisciplinary design company Reef Design Lab designed a series of specialised wave break modules, to prevent further erosion along the beach. Reef Design…
- A bamboo-timber grid shellA team of students from Edinburgh Napier University created a grid shell structure made of a bamboo-timber composite, said to be the first of…
- Ceramics made of egg shells and algaeArgentinian designer Cynthia Nudel designed ‘bioceramics’, artful objects made of eggshells and brown algae. According to Nudel, this project arises from a conflict between…
- Re:Shell – Eggshell Waste Reimagined as Biodegradable BricksA design team at Seoul National University’s Living Design Lab has created Re:Shell, a biodegradable material that turns discarded eggshells into functional building blocks.…
- Agar Plasticity: The Exciting Potential of Seaweed-based PackagingNew Japanese design studio AMAM (Kosuke Araki, Noriaki Maetani and Akira Muraoka) work with agar, a seaweed-based material to develop new and more eco-friendly…
- Seepje: let nature do your laundry in a nutshellSooner or later, we all have to face it: doing laundry. However, while we often use laundry detergent that is brimming harmful chemicals, there…
- Crushable Helmets at the Superbowl?Player concussion are a major issue and plague within professional American football leagues such as the NCAA and NFL. In response to the issue,…
- Bright blues from belowFound living in kelp beds along the coasts of Norway, Iceland, the UK, Portugal and the Canary Islands, the blue-rayed limpet is distinguished by…
- Ecotrapod: A Sustainable Innovation in Wave DissipationAn innovative approach to coastal protection has been developed by rethinking the materials used in wave-dissipating blocks, designed by Chia-Ying Chiang and Shao-Yu Lin,…
- 5 3D printed houses you might live in on MarsNASA and partner Bradley University of Peoria, Illinois, have selected the top five teams the latest stage of the agency’s 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge…
- 3D printed eco-marathon carHere’s another feather in the cap for 3D printing: the technology is now being used to help build racing cars. Eco-racing cars, that is,…
- Pleated Paper Waste As A New Design MaterialIn April 2026, ISSEY MIYAKE’s Milan store presents The Paper Log: Shell and Core, an experimental exhibition that turns industrial paper waste into design…
