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Regenerated urban and rural spaces
Rediscovering Lambrate Again
Keeping what exists, filling in what is missing
Milano, Italy
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Buildings renovated in a spirit of circularity
The New Landes Residence
The New Landes Residence - A circular project
Sanguinet, France
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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
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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Mobilisation of culture, arts and communities
Eurotopia
Eurotopia – reconfiguring european representation
Munich, Germany
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Products and life style
Whalter Whale Filter
Whalter Whale Filter (water purifier with an eye on environmental problems)
Milano, Italy
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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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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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Interdisciplinary education models
‘Il Castello’ former factory restoration
‘Il Castello’ former factory rehabilitation in the Emilian coutryside, Ferrara, Italy
Ferrara, Italy
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Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design
The Growing Pavilion
The Growing Pavilion
Eindhoven, Netherlands
The Growing Pavilion is an ode to the beauty and power of biobased materials. It stands as a necessary and viable solution for reducing the rising impacts of climate change and the use of fossil resources. With this structure we show the possibilities, and above all the wonderful beauty, of biobased construction. The pavilion is unique in the way in which a large number of biobased materials, such as wood, hemp, mycelium, cattail and cotton, come together to form an extraordinary creation.
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Kunskapshuset (House of Knowledge)
Kunskapshuset (House of Knowledge), Gällivare
Gällivare, Sweden
The construction of Kunskapshuset is an important part of the extensive social transformation in Gällivare as two communities will become one due to mining activities. In close collaboration with the municipality's representatives and school representatives, solutions on how the new Kunskapshuset and the entire block can be designed into an economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable, functional, and architecturally attractive whole was developed.
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The Wadden Sea Centre
The Wadden Sea Centre
Ribe, Denmark
The Wadden Sea Centre is contextual architecture under demanding conditions. It interprets traditional building techniques and conveys the importance of protecting one of the world's largest tidal areas. The building arises from a landscape characterized by endless horizontal lines, secluded farmhouses, and a relentless Western wind. In form and materiality, the Wadden Sea Centre is both a continuation and an interpretation of the place and the traditional thatched houses connected to the area.
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BUGA Wood Pavilion
Innovative, Lightweight, Sustainable and Fully Reuseable Segmented Wood Shell Structure
Heilbronn, Germany
The BUGA Wood Pavilion celebrates a new approach to digital timber construction. The stunning wooden roof spans 30 meters over a public event area, using a minimum amount of material while also generating a unique architectural space. The pavilion was developed by a interdisciplinary team of architects, engineers, scientists, craft and public stakeholders. Due to its innovative building system it can be fully reassembled at a new location and completely recycled at the structures end-of-life.
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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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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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