• Regenerated urban and rural spaces

    Reconciling Townscapes

    an inclusive transformation of by local residents, in a spatial, functional and ecological sense

    Lisbon, Portugal
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  • Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design

    Compostboard

    From renewable agricultural waste to compostable, harmless sheet materials. Ready for mass-consumpti

    Eindhoven, Netherlands
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  • Regenerated urban and rural spaces

    Porto di Mare Eco-District (Milan)

    Porto di Mare Eco-District: multi-layered modelling and Food District&Transportation Hub design

    milan, Italy
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  • Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design

    INHABITING AN ENCLOSED LANDSCAPE

    10 SANDSTONE SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS ON MALLORCA

    Santa Margalida, Mallorca, Spain
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  • Buildings renovated in a spirit of circularity

    The Second Nature

    an experiment between the capabilities of nature, man and the built environment

    Rome, Italy
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  • Products and life style

    materieunite

    materieunite: creating and bringing together sustainable, circular materials for design furniture.

    Terni, Italy
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  • Regenerated urban and rural spaces

    Constructed Ecosystems

    A Walk Through Constructed Ecosystems

    Berlin, Germany
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  • Reinvented places to meet and share

    New Urban Horizon

    New Urban Horizon - Tackling the Obsolete Parking Philosophy of Europe

    Milan, Italy
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  • Products and life style

    Flowercycling

    Innovative materials from flower waste

    Espoo, Finland
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  • Preserved and transformed cultural heritage

    Terezeen 2030

    Terezeen 2030 — Design Vision for a Historical Town

    Terezín, Czechia
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    Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design

    Freiburg Town Hall

    Freiburg Town Hall – World’s first public net-surplus-energy building

    Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
    In 2017, the city of Freiburg saw the completion of a new ecologically sustainable home for the previously dispersed city administration. The world’s first net-surplus-energy energy building is more than just an administration hub. The new ensemble is integrated in the green space between Eschholz Park and the University Hospital with his main entrance vis-à-vis the existing building. The newly created the square opens up of at Fehrenbachallee thus creating an additional attractive public space.
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    VeluxLab

    VeluxLab: An Innovative, Active, Cognitive Building

    Milano, Italy
    VeluxLab is the first Nearly Zero Energy Building (NZEB) of the Politecnico di Milano and the first Italian Active House. It is an open experimental unit designed through an innovative methodology and circular approach to managing the construction process, starting from the design phase to production, operation, and maintenance of a truly intelligent and active building. VeluxLab integrates aesthetic, design and technology, focusing on comfort, energy, and environmental building criteria.
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    Smart Multi-Energydistrict Nieuwe Dokken

    ‘Nieuwe Dokken’ in Ghent has integrated an innovative circular system in a newly built urban distric

    Gent, Belgium
    Environmentally conscious building is an important anchor point for the City of Ghent and sogent in the redevelopment of the Ghent old dockyards. The cooperative DuCoop was created to exploit & set-up new circular concepts. By using innovative technologies to close the loops of energy, water and resources, the carbon footprint is drastically decreased. Residents were engaged early on to participate in DuCoop, creating transparency, ownership & social equity in the neighbourhood.
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    Let's make our materials green again

    Opening the construction sector to beautiful, natural & healthy building materials

    Brussels, Belgium
    The construction sector is the lifeblood of our European economy. It provides employment and prospects for millions. Yet, aren't the most beautiful buildings those that make one with the environment they're in? In the last decades, too few homes were truly built sustainably. The industry is unfortunately responsible enormous amounts of pollution, raw material extraction, toxicity levels. With Natura Mater we're paving the way for truly sustainable homes - made with low carbon materials.
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    Synthetic

    Synthetic, action research on the challenges of production in the digital age

    Le Mans, France
    Synthetic, created in 2012, is the École supérieure d’art et de design TALM-Le Mans’ action research experimenting with robotic techniques on a large scale with a design methodology. The research has been engaged in an overall reflection on the challenges of production in the digital age: questioning the impact of digital production methods on work organisation in the field of art, design, architecture and engineering. 
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    Hoppet preschool

    Hoppet preschool

    Hisings Backa, Sweden
    The Preschool Hoppet is a building and innovation project aiming to be completely carbon-free. All decision regarding materials, design, and location on the plot, is based on the climate impact. This resulted in 70 percent less climate impact than a comparable project. Even though the design is based on the goal of achieving the lowest possible climate impact, the architectural height of the work has not given way.
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    Blade Made Design Process by Superuse

    Blade Made Design Process for Playground Wikado in Rotterdam by Superuse

    Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Blade Made is a circular economy strategy by Superuse, where the waste of the wind energy sector is transformed into public furniture like seating, playgrounds or bus shelters. This specific example shows the first Blade Made project by Superuse, a playground in Rotterdam. By reusing the carbon emissions are reduced up to 90% compared to a standard playground. The striking aesthetic of Blade Made playgrounds stimulates the imagination of children and facilitates social interaction.
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    Solar Visuals: Energy-generating façades

    Fully customizable, visually appealing, energy-generating façade panels

    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Solar Visuals is the developer of a revolutionary building integrated façade panel which can transform the built environment into visually appealing electricity-generating power plants. Through an innovative printing technology, our solar panels are fully sizable, scalable and can be customized with any visual design while maintaining high performance. Solar Visuals' panels can help stakeholders reach their sustainability goals by helping to create energy-neutral buildings.
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    The Exploded View Materials & Methods

    The Exploded View Materials & Methods

    Eindhoven, Netherlands
    The Exploded View stands for a radical new look at the realization of a home: pulling apart and dissecting the endless amount of applications that are present in a house, in order to rebuild them with circular applications and biobased materials. The ones that already exist but are still difficult to find their way to the construction site but also developments that still need serious support to develop and scale up. Applications and materials of today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
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    Knauf Insulation Experience Center

    KIEXC: representational sustainable building, dedicated to the educational and business activities

    Škofja Loka, Slovenia
    Knauf Insulation Experience Center is a place where visitors and users of the building not only hear, but also experience, see and feel all-round versatile quality and sustainable building solutions, both physically and virtually. You can roll up your sleeves and insulate a wall or roof, relax on green roof with great views or put on VR headset and immerse yourself in virtual building worlds. Or just enjoy a coffee while learning about the importance of sustainable construction.
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