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Overtreders W constructs hotel cabin from locally sourced materials secured with straps

August 17, 2023 Tian Lin 0

Dutch architecture studio Overtreders W has created Stable Stack, a temporary cabin hotel built using straps and borrowed materials, in Veenhuizen, the Netherlands. The studio found the materials for the cabin in the village of Veenhuizen, sourcing concrete gutters and wood from carpenter Peter Kroes and roof tiles and paving slabs from Riedstra farm. Instead

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Orbital Materials combines ChatGPT with physics to invent “transformational materials”

August 14, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The first materials designed by AI could be less than 18 months away, according to Orbital Materials CEO Jonathan Godwin, who aims to harness the technology to create materials to help with carbon capture. Formerly an engineer at Google’s AI research laboratory DeepMind, Godwin founded Orbital Materials in 2022 with a vision to bring to market

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DR Horton builds North Carolina house with grass-based ceiling and wall panels

August 11, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

North Carolina firm DR Horton has begun construction on a residential home using building materials from local technology studio Plantd, including panels made from compressed perennial grasses. DR Horton, which claims to be the United States’ largest homebuilder, has begun using panels produced by Plantd. These are made by compressing large amounts of fast-growing grasses

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DART Lab creates biodegradable concrete casts using sawdust

July 31, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

A research team at the University of Michigan has created biodegradable formwork out of sawdust in an attempt to mitigate wood waste in the process of laying concrete. The wood-based material is a result of the BioMatters project by the Digital Architecture Research and Technologies (DART) Lab at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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Largest earthquake test for mass-timber tower successful in California

July 25, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

US architecture studio Lever Architecture and a team of researchers have successfully tested the earthquake-resistant capabilities of a 10-storey, mass-timber building in California. Carried out early this year, the test featured a massive hydraulic table to prove the resiliency of a skyscraper constructed out of engineer timber against seismic magnitudes similar to 6.7 and 7.7 earthquakes.

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Eight projects with integrated cooling techniques that beat the heat

July 25, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Passive cooling techniques in architecture, reflective paint and water-filled windows are featured among the methods that designers and architects are using to mitigate heat in energy-efficient ways. With a summer featuring record-breaking temperatures across the globe, we have gathered eight public and residential projects that use integrated cooling to provide much-needed relief from the heat.

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Reset Materials exhibition shows building fragments made from eco-friendly materials

July 17, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

An exhibition has opened at Copenhagen Contemporary that suggests what a city made out of experimental biomaterials might look like. Named Reset Materials, the exhibition at the Copenhagen-based art centre contains a showcase of architectural fragments made from 10 different low-carbon materials, including earth, biocement, mycelium, silicon and straw. Overseen by Swiss architect and curator Chrissie

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ConForm adds “restrained yet rich” all-marble extension to Victorian house

July 12, 2023 Tian Lin 0

London studio ConForm has added a marble side extension to a Victorian terraced house in Hampstead, London. ConForm added the distinctive side extension to the house and used marble to contrast the addition with the existing house. “We approach all projects regardless of typology with a meticulous research phase to find opportunities to create lasting, impactful and

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GAF applies solar-reflective coating to mitigate Los Angeles heat islands

June 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American roofing firm GAF has completed the first phase of a public-private initiative that seeks to mitigate urban heat in Los Angeles through solar-reflective coating. The GAF Cool Community Project completed the first phase of their public project in Los Angeles’ Pacoima, covering asphalt roads and public areas in a 10-block radius to see if

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Grimshaw and UEL develop sugarcane-waste blocks that “could replace the traditional brick industry”

May 4, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Grimshaw and the University of East London have collaborated to create Sugarcrete, a biomaterial construction block with an interlocking shape made from the sugarcane by-product bagasse. Sugarcrete was developed to be a low-cost and low-carbon reusable construction-material alternative to brick and concrete. The concept, design and fabrication of the material were led by staff

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