Materials

Mighty Buildings plans neighbourhood of 3D-printed homes for California

March 31, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Construction technology company Mighty Buildings has announced plans to build 15 homes using prefabricated 3D-printed panels in Rancho Mirage, California. The project is a collaboration between California-based Mighty Buildings and developers Palari Group. Construction will begin at the end of this year with the homes set to be finished by Spring 2022. Once complete, Mighty

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Recyclable opera pavilion to be made from champagne corks and oyster shells

March 30, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

BakerBrown Studio has designed a garden pavilion for the Glyndebourne opera house in England that will use the venue’s discarded champagne corks and seafood shells as building materials. The single-storey Glyndebourne Croquet Pavilion will overlook the South Downs from a small plot on a croquet lawn between existing yew hedges in the house’s grounds. Local

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Erez Nevi Pana constructs “small-scale architecture” from Dead Sea salt

February 22, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Israeli designer Erez Nevi Pana used five tons of salt from the Dead Sea to create his Crystalline collection, which showcases how the material can be used as building blocks. The collection consists of four sculptural elements: a ladder, boulder, steps and a walkway, and is on view at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)

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Hugo McCloud’s artworks use plastic bags instead of paint

February 16, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

Together by Hugo McCloud from Burdened exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery

New York artist Hugo McCloud has created a series of artworks that contain no paint or glue, only thousands of small plastic pieces cut from single-use bags and melted together to form a motif. The series, called Burdened, is on view at Sean Kelly Gallery in Hudson Yards, New York until 27 February and spans

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Biomimicry could lead to cities that “deliver net benefits” in the fight against climate change

February 8, 2021 Marcus Fairs 0

Cities could help stop climate change by imitating natural processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to architect Michael Pawlyn. Buildings could be constructed from materials containing atmospheric carbon that can be recycled at the end of their lifetime, Pawlyn said. New types of carbon-rich concrete and bioplastics could lock up large amounts

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Honext develops recyclable construction material made of cellulose fibres from waste paper

November 26, 2020 Natashah Hitti 0

Barcelona-based startup Honext has developed a sustainable construction board material made from a combination of enzymes and cellulose taken from the waste streams of paper production. The material is made from what Honext describes as an “untapped resource”: cellulose residue taken from cardboard and paper waste generated at paper mills. This paper has already gone

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Eliza Hague designs inflatable origami-like greenhouses from bamboo and shellac

June 15, 2020 Natashah Hitti 0

Eliza Hague designs inflatable origami-like "greenhouse villages" from bamboo and shellac

Design student Eliza Hague has created a concept for inflatable greenhouses made from shellac-coated bamboo paper to help residents of Jaipur, India, grow their own food. The University of Westminster student has developed a low-cost paper-like material from bamboo pulp as a sustainable and local alternative to the polyethylene plastic sheeting typically used for polytunnels.

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Generate to build carbon-neutral CLT apartment block in Boston

February 14, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Model-C carbon-neutral apartment block in Boston by Generate

Architecture studio Generate has unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral apartment block, named Model-C, in Boston using a cross-laminated timber “kit of parts”. The proposed five-storey block will use Generate’s Model-C prototype “kit of parts” system, which is a type of modular prefabrication that allows for disassembly and reuse. It is intended to achieve the Passivhaus standard for

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Switching to timber could solve Dutch housing shortage and be “a chance for our climate”

October 24, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0

The Netherlands could build a million new homes from sustainably harvested local wood and save 100 megatons of carbon in the process, according to architect Marco Vermeulen. The Dutch architect has calculated that the country’s 140,000 hectares of harvestable woodlands could provide enough timber for 22,000 houses each year. This means the country’s entire shortfall

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Studio Gang clads Chicago high-rise in energy-saving concrete panels

September 9, 2019 Dezeen staff 0

Rieder Group concrete cladding on Solstice on the Park by Studio Gang

Dezeen promotion: materials developer Rieder has clad the facades of Solstice on the Park, a residential tower in Chicago designed by Studio Gang, in modular concrete panels. The tower, clad by Rieder, is named Solstice on the Park due to the distinctive angular forms cut from its south, park-facing facade. The form of the building has

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