MaterialDistrict

Truck Pressings and Steel Offcuts Build a Life-Size Metal House materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #TheMetalHouse #TweekEek #VDLGroep #IndustrialWaste #UpcycledMetal #CircularDesign #DutchDesignWeek #MaterialReuse

These natural cork surfaces combine acoustic and thermal performance with computational design and CNC milling to create patterned interior walls. Gencork cork surfaces by Gencork materialdistrict.com/materia… #MaterialoftheDay #Materials #Cork #BiobasedMaterials #AcousticSurfaces

Straw Bales and Timber Frames Build a Shelter That Returns to the Soil materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInnovation #Materials #StrawBale #BaleWorks #RegenerativeArchitecture #BiobasedBuilding #TimberFrame #CircularDesign #Mycelium #CornellAAP

Short Flax Fibres Pressed Into Curved Furniture Parts materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #GDesmet #FlaxFibre #Hemp #BentWood #BiobasedMaterials #FurnitureDesign #NaturalFibres #MadeInBelgium

Mass Timber Passivhaus School Takes Australia’s Top Timber Design Award materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #MassTimber #CLT #Passivhaus #TimberArchitecture #SchoolDesign #GreenRoof #LowCarbonBuilding #BettiUndKnut

Made from upcycled agricultural residues and industrial by-products, these carbon-negative blocks offer a lower-carbon alternative to conventional masonry. Agrocrete by GreenJams materialdistrict.com/materia… #MaterialoftheDay #Materials #Agrocrete #AgriculturalWaste

Five Designers Shape an Intimate Room in Hand-Tufted Wool materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #Wool #ElEspartano #LidewijEdelkoort #HandTufted #WoolRugs #TextileDesign #DezeenAwards #DutchDesign #InteriorDesign

Robotically Sprayed Earth Forms a Noise Barrier Without Steel materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #MaterialInspiration #Materials #EarthConstruction #ShotEarth #RoboticConstruction #NoiseBarriers #AcousticDesign #CircularConstruction

Hemp and Flax Fill Eindhoven’s Shared Social Housing Stream materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #Biobased #Hemp #Flax #SocialHousing #TimberFrame #DutchDesignWeek

This lightweight composite turns discarded plastic bags and textile fibres into mouldable sheets for interiors, furniture and architectural products. WasticFiber by RK Collective materialdistrict.com/materia… #MaterialoftheDay #Materials #RecycledPlastic #TextileWaste

Spruce Frame and Donor Steel Shape Krimpenerwaard’s New Town Hall materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #Wood #TimberArchitecture #BiophilicDesign #CircularConstruction #DonorSteel #MaterialReuse #PublicBuildings #BiobasedBuilding #DutchArchitecture

Physicist Derek Stein Turns Nanopore Research Into Moisture-Buffering Paint materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #Coatings #LilypadPaint #MoistureControl #IndoorAirQuality #SmartMaterials #HealthyBuildings #MaterialInnovation #PaintTechnology #DesignResearch

Sara Farha and Khaled Shalkha Turn Date Pits Into Pavers materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #Datecrete #Biobased #DatePits #AgriculturalWaste #ConcreteAlternative #MaterialResearch #Tiles #CircularDesign

This digitally controlled additive manufacturing process produces large, customised concrete elements without conventional formwork. 3D Printed Concrete by Mangrove materialdistrict.com/materia… #MaterialoftheDay #Materials #3DPrintedConcrete #AdditiveManufacturing #DigitalFabrication

Projecting Bricks Give Stirling Prize Housing a Pixelated Skin materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #BrickArchitecture #BrickFacade #SocialHousing #StirlingPrize #HousingDesign #LandscapeArchitecture #RIBA

Arup and Queen’s Belfast Plan a Thames Hub for Salvaged Concrete materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #ConcreteReuse #UrbanMining #CircularConstruction #Embodiedcarbon #Reuse #NewEuropeanBauhaus #StructuralEngineering

Stacked Larch Rest Stop Recalls a Woodpile in Burgsinn materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #timberArchitecture #Larch #DesignForDisassembly #Cycling #ToBStudio #Bavaria #Wood #Architecture

Using supercritical CO₂, spruce timber is deeply impregnated without water or heavy metals and with around one gram of treatment agent per board. Superwood by Gras Wood Wide BV materialdistrict.com/materia… #MaterialoftheDay #Materials #SpruceTimber #TimberCladding #WoodTechnology

Lee Broom and Brokis Build Beacon From 292 Panels of Recycled Glass materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #RecycledGlass #CircularDesign #SustainableMaterials #MaterialInnovation #LightingDesign #GlassDesign #LightingInstallation #LeeBroom #Brokis

Almere Dismantling Hall Rescues Leather From Discarded Sofas materialdistrict.com/article… #MaterialInspiration #Materials #reclaimedleather #circularfurniture #upcycling #Almere #LeatherLoop #circulardesign