• Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design

    Fog Harvesting textile architecture

    Development of smart meshes enhancing the harvesting system to an efficient nature-based solution

    milanono, Italy
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  • Mobilisation of culture, arts and communities

    New Urban Horizon

    New Urban Horizon - Tackling the Obsolete Parking Philosophy of Europe

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

    Timber Earth Slab

    Robotically assembled high-performance construction system made of timber and earth

    Munich, Germany
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  • Reinvented places to meet and share

    Long (A)Live the Green Line!

    A new approach to the divided city of Nicosia, for the creation of a bicommunal, shared park

    Nicosia, Cyprus
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  • Regenerated urban and rural spaces

    New identity for a former Pasta-Factory

    Como Pastificio Castelli regeneration into an innovative social and housing hub

    Como, Italy
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  • Buildings renovated in a spirit of circularity

    INHABITING AN ENCLOSED LANDSCAPE

    10 SANSDTONE SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS ON MALLORCA

    Santa Margalida, Spain
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  • Modular, adaptable and mobile living solutions

    M.A.I.S

    Work-home dualism in new housing project

    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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  • Products and life style

    Compostboard

    From renewable agricultural waste to compostable, harmless sheet materials.

    Eindhoven, Netherlands
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  • Solutions for the co-evolution of built environment and nature

    NEST

    NEST - Natural Eco-System Tiles

    Barcelona, Spain
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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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    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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    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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