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Building blocks from the Weerribben

BioBblocks B.V. / BioBlocks Sustainable building blocks in which the assimilated CO2 is stored.
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Loam plaster

BC architects materials This earth material is infinitely re-usable.

Water permeable tiles

Waterweg / Baggerbestrating Unlike many other tiles, these tiles are water permeable.

Loam in practice, by BPD

In the Kaatsheuvel district of Westwaard, BPD is realizing 25 single-family homes in a very sustain

Water

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BioLaminate from coarsely grounded mussels

HuisVeendam by Tjeerd Veenhoven / BioLaminaat The mussels are selected, coarsely ground, mixed with potato starch, glued and pressed.
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Eelgrass thatched panel

Kathryn Larsen This design is inspired by the traditional application of the seaweed on roofs on island Læsø
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Algae textile

Carolyn Raff Studio / Algae based Biopolymer This fully compostable biopolymer consists of agar, glycerol and natural dyes.
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Pressed seaweed tiles

BlueBlocks, Blue City / Sea-Wood Materials A material comparable to softboard.
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Seaweed tiles

Studio Klarenbeek & Dros The plastics of the future are grown local in the sea.
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Reed and blue-green algae tiles

NPSP B.V. / Nabasco 8010 Recel blue-green algae is added as a natural coloring agent.

Reed panels

NPSP Standard board materials can exceptionally well be made of residual streams.

Residual flow water purification and blue-green algae tiles

NPSP B.V. Blue-green algae is added as a natural coloring agent.

Fungi

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Acoustic mycelium Tiles

Mogu Srl Designed to maximise sound absorption and overall comfort in interior spaces.
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Resilient mycelium flooring

Mogu Srl bio-based resilient tiles for interior design and architecture.
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Fungal coating

Xyhlo Biofinish A coating that can repair itself.

Bacteria

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Bacteria grown colored shower curtain

Living Colour by Kukka & Studio Ilfa Siebenhaar Living Colour is an innovative dyeing method with living organisms. The bacteria grow on the textil

Concrete with bacteria that heal cracks

Basilisk / TU/Delft Self-healing concrete is normal concrete to which bacteria and nutrients have been added. Cracks in

Textile of kombucha with moss

Studio Samira Boon in collaboration with Biophysics of Photosynthesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam For this new substance, named KOMBUTEX, only very universal ingredients are needed: tea, sugar, sco

Plants

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Cork wall

PuurKurk / Muratto The material can be pigmented and sculpted into smooth, coarse or geometric designs.
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Hemp combind

Rik Makes / Compostboard When the boards are not usable anymore they can be put back into the earth.
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Kerloc facade tiles

Martens keramiek b.v. Kerloc is a cold ceramic material that is produced without any additional heating.
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Acoustic interior tile made from cork

PuurKurk / Muratto The bark of the cork oak can be removed every 10 years.
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Jute Walls of BioFold

Samira Boon, NPSP B.V., Dofactory en Wolck / BioFold The biocomposite BioFold is made of textile waste and biobased plastics.
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Hemp panel

J. Swart Design By applying a wave structure to the panel, the material gains stiffness.

Linseed oil Marmoleum floor

Forbo-Flooring B.V / Marmoleum Cookie This biobased floor covering has been around for over 150 years!
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Hemp floor insulation

HempFlax Building Solutions GmbH Exclusively made of natural materials.
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Volcanic black BioLaminate with mussel grit

HuisVeendam by Tjeerd Veenhoven / Bio Laminaat HuisVeendam biologically preserves the esthetic qualities of the natural products that surround us.
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Hemp blocks

IsoHemp / Hennep Blokken A mixture of hemp, water and lime.

Poplar multiplex

Ecoplex The wood can be harvested every 10 to 15 years without affecting the forests.

BioLaminate with roadside grass

HuisVeendam by Tjeerd Veenhoven / Bio Laminaat HuisVeendam preserves the aesthetic qualities of natural products that surround us in an ecological

Hemp tent fabric

TenCate Outdoor Fabrics / Hennepdoek TenCate Outdoor Fabrics is getting closer and closer to a solution to make tent fabrics from enviro

Rice straw boards

ECOBoard international / ECOBoard In many Asian countries, rice straw is a major agricultural residual flow. ECOBoards international

Linseed oil upholstery

Forbo / Furniture Linoleum Upholstery may not stay behind in the transition to biobased and circulair building and living. Thi

Food

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Popcorn panels

Rik Makes The popcorn panels are fully compostable.
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Fruitleather

Fruitleather Rotterdam This leather-like material is made out of the pulp of discarded mangoes
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Kombucha leather

Diana Penciu / SCOBY ‘Leather’ A mixture of water, tea, sugar, yeast and a bacterial culture.
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Rice husk composite

Fiberplast / NoWood Resysta This material is just as widely applicable as wood
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Eggshell tiles

Basse Stittgen The eggshells fuse as the albumin in the eggwhite binds when subjected to heat and pressure.
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Milk Protein Tiles

New Lignum - Nils Ahrenberg & Sebastian Guzman Olmos a compostable casein bio fiberboard.

Spent brewer’s grain panel

ECOR Global / ‘limited edition’ custom-made R&D panel Made of 25% beer grains and 75% recycled paper.

Detachability

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A flexible built environment

The New Makers a circular, digitally produced building system
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Galvanized steel as supporting construction

Jansen AG Sustainability by Architecture

Detachability

Buro Kade By building and designing detachably, it is possible to keep the materials in the cycle

Urban Mining

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Urban Mining

Buro Kade The materials define the direction of the design

Re-use Materials

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Textile board natural wool

Kvadrat / Really Solid Textile Boards this product is completely circular
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Denim tent fabric

TenCate Outdoor Fabrics / Blueloop This canvas contains 5 to 8 pairs of jeans.
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Jeans panel

ECOR Panels The ECOR jeans panel consists of 25% jeans fabric from different suppliers of the textile industry.
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Paper and cardboard waste insulation

EverUse circulaire isolatie This insulation material is made out of paper and cardboard waste
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Adhesive free tiles

Forbo / Allura Ease It does not require the use of glue - making it ideal for reuse and recycling.
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Blue denim mat

NPSP B.V. + Coebbe Contains recycled Dutch jeans, combined with biobased plastic PLA fibers
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Textile board blue cotton

Kvadrat / Really Solid Textile Boards The core exists for 70% of white cotton from industrial laundries.
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Textile insulation

VRK Isolatie Metisse uses the cotton from discarded jeans for the production of high-quality insulation material.

Paper waste panel

ECOR Panels The panels are 100% recycled paper and cardboard.

Site specific printing

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Printed building elements from the water treatment plant

Omlab Residual flows from sewage and drinking water treatment are excellent printing material.

Raw material Calcite

AquaMinerals B.V. / Grondstof Calciet The use of calcite as inoculum in the water softening process is unique in the world. In contrast t

Raw material Cellulose

Energie- en grondstoffenfabriek / Grondstof Cellulose In The Netherlands, 180.000 tons of toilet paper is flushed on a yearly basis and burned as waste.

Raw material Kaumera

Energie- en grondstoffenfabriek / Grondstof Kaumera Kaumera (‘chameleon’ in Maori) is extracted from sludge granules from the Nereda purification p

Examples of 3D Printing

Project Milestone In the city of Eindhoven (The Netherlands) five 3D-printed concrete houses wil