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- Hydraulic wooden SmartShellArchitecture shines because it’s the craft of making really large, beautiful and useful objects. For obvious reasons, buildings are designed with safety top of…
- Modular mass-timber system for building schoolsThe collective Circlewood, which consists of various companies including architectural firm OMA, developed a prefabricated, mass timber ‘plug and play’ system to build nine…
- The (outer) world’s first wooden satelliteResearchers from Kyoto University in collaboration with Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese company, have started to develop what should be the first satellites made out…
- Building with hempcreteDutch architectural firm Werkstatt created the first Dutch house built entirely from hempcrete. Hempcrete or hemplime is a mixture of lime and hemp wood,…
- Mud-spraying drones to build homesFrench architect Stéphanie Chaltiel uses mud-spraying drones to build emergency architecture. To make the home, first a wooden domed skeleton is constructed, on which…
- A wooden motorcycle powered by algaeElectric cars and bikes, both motorcycles and bicycles, are popping up like mushrooms, but Ritsert Mans looks at another source of clean energy to…
- Shigeru Ban Builds with Earthquake RubbleShigeru Ban is known for his innovative use of plain, common materials such as paper tubes in his award winning architecture. Recently, he has…
- Living Building Material Converts CO₂ into Stone and BiomassResearchers at ETH Zurich have created a pioneering building material that actively captures and stores carbon dioxide. The material combines a hydrogel with photosynthetic…
- A building made of recycled palletsA building poised to rise in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by developed The Urban Woods will be made of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) made from…
- Moveable wooden wallsResearchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with PLP Architecture have developed moveable wooden walls to counter costs of remodeling interior floor plans.…
- A house made of wooden off-cuts from floor productionCalled Saltviga House, located in southeast Norway, the recreational home by Swedish architectural firm Kolman Boye Architects is built using oak and Douglas off-cuts…
- Building with Lego bricks made from reclaimed woodGerman company TRIQBRIQ developed a timber construction system that consist of micro-modular wooden building blocks, which can stacked quickly to create loadbearing walls. The…
- Hempcrete building blocks interlock like LegosCanada-based company Just BioFiber offers building blocks made of hempcrete that interlock when stacked, like Lego bricks. Hempcrete is a concrete-like material made of…
- A wooden circular pavilionDesigned by Verstas Architects, the Helsinki Biennial Pavilion is made of wood, made of prefabricated modules, and has received the Architecture MasterPrize. In 2021,…
- A wooden acoustic wall constructed with augmented realityResearchers at the Gramazio Kohler Research institute, part of ETH Zürich, designed an acoustic wall of identical timber blocks, which was assembled in an…
- Building with robots using Spatial Timber Assemblies methodDigitalisation and automation is used more and more in construction, including timber construction. However, often, the material still has to be manually assembled. Now,…
- Wooden construction has a magic touchWith great design, it’s often not just about the material, it’s what you do with it that really counts. This office by Shigeru Ban…
- 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…
- Notre Dame’s lead-clad wooden roof destroyed in fireAround 19.00h local time yesterday evening, a fire broke out in the Notre Dame in Paris. While the fire has been extinguished, the 800-year-old…
- Wooden and glass Seine Musicale powered by moving solar sailShigeru Ban is perhaps best known for his use of paper and cardboard in architecture, but he is also not averse to using wood.…
- More mud-spraying drones to build emergency homesThe Terramia pavilions, developed by Stephanie Chaltiel of MuDD Architects, CanyaViva, and Summum Engineering, are innovative emergency housing prototypes combining digital fabrication of mud-spraying…
