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- Beetle shell plasticBeetle shells are not the first thing many people think of when talking about material development. But one designer has certainly seen the potential…
- A cabin made from beetle infested wood and concrete 3D printingLeslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, both assistant professors of architecture at Cornell University in the US and co-principals of design firm HANNAH, designed a…
- Cooling ceramics inspired by beetlesResearchers at the City University of Hong Kong developed a passive radiative cooling ceramic material, which was inspired by a beetle. Passive radiative cooling…
- Blue-stained Pine is FineBeetle-kill wood is dyed a kind of grey-blue and is softened when beetles attack it. From i-Phone cases and lamps to high tech building…
- The Beetlechair: A Scalable Solution for Climate-Conscious DesignThe Beetlechair is an innovative response to contemporary environmental challenges, particularly the ecological impact of climate-related forest diebacks. Designed by Studio Alexander von Dombois…
- Pulling Drinking Water Out of Thin AirA new material being developed by scientists at Harvard University could achieve the feat of creating harvesting drinking water literally out of the air.…
- Nature is a design toolThere is a beetle that can detect fire from 80 km away. That’s 10,000 times further than current fire detection systems. Spider web silk…
- Architecture inspired by ladybug wingsResearchers and students from University of Stuttgart developed a large-scale architectural structure inspired by the folding mechanisms of ladybug wings, made of carbon and…
- T3 first modern tall wooden building of USAWooden high-rising buildings become more and more popular. Examples of (planned) constructions are HoHo Wien in Vienna, Baobab in Paris, Canopia in Bordeaux, Dalston…
- Spruce Bark Hut: Turning Forest Waste Into A Living Architectural SkinUlf Mejergren Architects (UMA) designed the Spruce Bark Hut in Grödinge, Sweden, to explore spruce bark as a bio-based building material. The team collected…
- Capturing water from the air inspired by natureThe Dutch start-up Sponsh, a spin-off company of Eindhoven University of Technology, developed a temperature-sensitive smart textile that absorbs water from the air at…
- GlossEdit March 2017: This material is no longer available We use a material because it can perform a function. This may be a technical…
- Shimmering sequins made of wood celluloseWith her project Bio Iridescent Sequin, designer Elissa Brunato developed a bio-based alternative to petroleum-based plastic sequins, made of wood cellulose. The textile and…
- Bio-inspired 3D printed cement structures become stronger when they crackResearchers at Purdue University developed bio-inspired 3D printed cement paste structures that become stronger under pressure. The researchers took inspiration from the shells of…
- New material changes colour under the influence of moistureWhat if you could just breathe on something and it changed colour? Researchers at the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands created a material…
- 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…
- Appreciating wooden skyscrapers on Skyscraper Appreciation DayToday (10 August) is Skyscraper Appreciation Day, so let’s appreciate skyscrapers! Not just any skyscraper, but skyscrapers made from an innovative material… Wood! Building…
- Elytra Filament Pavilion Features New Robot-Fabricated Building MaterialThis week, the robot-fabricated Elytra Filament Pavilion opened at the Victoria & Albert museum in London. It's unusual structure is made from a super…
- New York, New York: Manhattan Trades Steel For Wood BuildingMahattan may be known as building jungle of steel and concrete. But a new 10-story building built almost completely out of wood might begin to break…
- A stool ‘designed’ by plastic-eating mealwormsBritish 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.…
