Materials - The Exploded View

Materials

There are nearly 100 natural building materials in The Exploded View Beyond Building. We show endless, potential material flows that are in stock and that are not or hardly used in the construction world. For example, materials from food, seaweed, (sewage) water, buildings or even our own living environment. These are materials that already exist and are ready to find their way to the building sites. But also materials that still need serious support to develop and scale up. Materials of today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Discover them all here within 1 of the 7 main categories.

Funghi & Bacteria

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Bacteria Lamp

Jan Klinger Bacteria are everywhere. There are actually ten times more bacteria than human cells on and in our

Mycelium and timber lightshade

SEBASTIAN COX STUDIO / SEBASTIAN COX AND NINELA IVANOVA Design studio Sebastian Cox designs and makes furniture and home accessories from a natural perspec

Tree Table / Endless Vase

Blast studio Blast Studio makes art and architecture using urban waste, living organisms and current technology.

Biolith

Biomason Biomason produces Biolith precast concrete tile with bacteria that precipitate calcium carbonate in

Resilient mycelium flooring

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

Mycelium Composites

Grown.Bio Grown.bio makes products from agricultural waste and mycelium. Also known as mycocomposites, these

Fungal coating

Xyhlo Biofinish Xyhlo biofinish is a living protection layer that can be applied on wood. This coating is based on

Acoustic mycelium Tiles

Mogu Srl / Acoustic tile Mogu Acoustic tiles are certified products created by fermenting selected mycelium (the vegetative

Living Materials

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Overgrown Wall

Holcim Bouw & Infra Concrete is a versatile building material, but it has a significant carbon footprint. Holcim aims t

Smartty Air Clean

Smartty Thanks to the invention of Eduard van Vliet, the Smartty Air Clean is smarter than a standard plant

Ecolve

Scape Agency Ecolve is a bioreceptive alternative to concrete. Ecolve consists of recycled materials from the tr

ReLife

EXIE / EARTH KWEEK ReLife was founded with the aim of combating CO2 emissions, combating pesticides and soil pollution

Dobbertuin

Dobberweelde The floating gardens of DobberWeelde look relaxed; all kinds of plants that sway on the water in a

Smartty Aqua Green Panel

Smartty The Aqua Green Panel is an invention of Eduard van Vliet and offers a slim water-buffering green-sl

Cork green roof

Earth Kweek/ Dakdorpen The Green Roof developed for 'The Exploded View' is built of 100% natural modules based on expanded

Food

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Eggshell ceramic

ATELIER LVDW The Netherlands is the biggest egg producer in the world, at 10 billion a year. An egg provides val

Decorative tray

Materia Madera Plantain and coffee are two major staples of the Puerto Rican diet. They are produced and consumed

How do you like your eggs?

Basse Stittgen Every year the world’s 6.4 billion chickens lay around 1.1 trillion eggs. A third of all those eg

Espresso cup and Cappuccino cup

KAFFEEFORM (DESIGN JULIAN LECHNER) Product designer Julian Lechner was intrigued by the idea of making something new and sustainable f

Eco-boards ®

Ecoboard international BV ECOBoards Standard panels made of natural fibers represent a sustainable and green solution, which

CIRCULAR MATTERS BLACK REED & CIRCULAR MATTERS RED REED

Circular Matters The Circular Matters Panel is 100% bio-circular. This means that the material can be made entirely

Organoid Kornbluama

Organoid / Campo interior & advice Natural design is becoming increasingly important. Organoid brings nature into a building in an eas

Totomoxtle

Fernando Laposse Totomoxtle is a new veneer material made with husks of heirloom Mexican corn , Totomoxtle focuses o

EcoCocon

Strotec B.V. Strotec is the organisation behind the EcoCocon prefab rapid construction system, which is in princ

Combind Paprika

Rik Makes Due to the enormous amount of residual flows from the greenhouses, it is possible to convert a larg

Oesterplat

D' werkplaats Marjolein Stappers It takes five to eight years for an oyster to grow into an edible product. Once it has reached that

Marmoleum, Boring collection

Forbo Flooring Systems Marmoleum is sustainable flooring and is made from 97% natural materials, 72% of which is quickly r

Gramitherm®

Gramitherm Europe sa Gramitherm® are insulation boards based on grass fiber. In the process, grass is used as raw mater

Linseed oil Marmoleum floor

Forbo-Flooring B.V / Marmoleum Cookie This biobased floor covering has been around for over 150 years! The completely CO2 neutral materia

Water

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Balancing landscapes

Klarenbeek & Dros Klarenbeek & Dros made this landscape of modular elements, 3D printed with Algae Biopolymers fr

Luma Algae Plaster

BC materials / Atelier Luma This plaster is based on a unique mix of excavated earth and a small amount of biobased materials.

Aquatecture Compact Water Harvesting System

Studio Sway Aquatecture is a compact and modular water harvesting system designed to collect falling rainwater

Seaweed Cycle / Copier replica KLM tableware from Wierwaar / Replica Jolma Vennola Kaveri

Studio Klarenbeek & Dros In their Seaweed Cycle project Studio Klarenbeek & Dros are attempting to initiate a local clos

Regional Building Method

Bouwtuin Bouwtuin is committed to radically improving the sustainability of the (self) construction chain an

Nabasco® 8010

NPSP BV This hard material consists of various residual flows: reed fibers from nature reserves and from th

Biolaminate

HuisVeendam HuisVeendam develops products based on natural local fibers and starch. A main ingredient is cattai

ZOAK

Tilesystems The abbreviation ZOAK (in Dutch) stands for Very Open Waste Ceramics, or Very Open Waste Ceramics p

Silent reed

Het Stille Verzet Silent Reed is a natural reed that is cut and selected with perfect acoustic performances.

Søuld Acoustic Mats

Søuld Søuld’s acoustic products are made from eelgrass—a natural, non-toxic, CO₂-storing material�

ALGAE TEXTILE

Carolyn Raff Studio / Algae based Biopolymer This fully compostable biopolymer consists of agar, glycerol and natural dyes. Agar is an algae-bas

Pressed seaweed tiles

BlueBlocks, Blue City / Sea-Wood Materials Seaweed is a fast growing crop that does not require fresh water, land, fertilizers or pest

Seaweed tiles

Studio Klarenbeek & Dros The raw materials for the plastics of the future are grown local in the sea. That is the statement

Water permeable tiles

Waterweg / Baggerbestrating Every seven years, each waterway in the Netherlands is dredged. By extracting, drying and sieving t

Sewage

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Merdacotta

Museo della merda This tableware resembles terracotta in appearance, but it is not. This ceramic is made of cow dung

Nabasco® 8010

NPSP BV This hard material consists of various residual flows: reed fibers from nature reserves and from th

TROBOLO® tiny dry toilet

Ecosave This TINY dry toilet from Trobolo is made of wood in round shapes. As the word 'dry toilet' says, i

Mudernism

Studio Billie van Katwijk The most important residual material that remains after the purification of our waste water is sewa

Printed building elements from the water treatment plant

Omlab In The Netherlands, 180.000 tons of toilet paper is flushed on a yearly basis and burned as waste.

Earth

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Lemix / Claytec

Ekoplus Lemix clay construction board is a good replacement for the plasterboard. Some advantages of

Kastar

Kastar is a mixture of earth that contains a lot of gravel to be able to carry out rammed earth. Th

TERRA_STORY 2021 / 2019

Fabrikaat Each type of earth has its own colour. Fabrikaat explore typical regional materials for innovative

Rammed Earth Wall

Het Leemniscaat Loam is excavated on construction projects and can be used in making clay plasters, walls and walls

Wonderstone

Claylime Wonderstone is a new ClayLime natural coating for walls and floors, based on clay and silica. Thank

Plants

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Western Red shingles roof and wall + Inland Larch decking with Staatsbosbeheer

Gras Wood Wide Wood is the only renewable raw material that is not only cheap to process, but also stores and reta

Forest Wool

Tamara Orjola Pine trees are the world’s main source of wood. In the European Union alone, 600 million pines ar

Agepan DWD Protect NF

Warmteplan AGEPAN® DWD boards are permeable wall and roof boards manufactured in dry process with and without

CorkTess and CorkNature

Gencork In the Exploded View Beyond Building two applications of Gencork are used: Corktess explor

Forest of the future

Pro Suber Pro Suber (freely translated from Latin; for cork) informs about the use of 100% biobased expanded

Thermo Hanf Combi Jute

Hempflax Thermo Hanf Combi Jute is a high-quality insulation material made from the industrial fiber hemp pl

Typhaboard

Typha Technik, co-developer is Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik Typhaboard is made from typha (cattail), a plant that grows quickly and easily in all kinds o

CaNaDry

Exie CaNaDry is an insulation material consisting of hemp shives, lime and a natural binder. Roofs, floo

Thermally modified reclaimed roof decking

gebruiktebouwmaterialen.com The products and building materials have had a previous life and have been carefully disassembled,

ESB Lite

Legit Forum Group ESB (eco strandboard) is an environmentally friendly alternative to OSB (Oriented Strandboard).

OMIYAMA / SAKAIDE

Zwarthout I Shou Sugi Ban Each plank stores CO2, and thus contributes to the reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere. The wood com

Hemp panels

Jory Swart Hemp is a fast-growing crop that is grown in the Netherlands and processed into various raw materia

No Waste Floor

Herso circular woodworkers The floor is made from 100% waste wood, which is why Herso is the first to obtain the FSC 100% recy

Ecolinde Natural Latex mattress

Ecolinde Ecolinde natural latex mattresses, the handmade cotton duvets, pillows and the bed are all 100%

Platowood

Platowood Fast-growing wood species from sustainably managed, certified forests go through a patented process

Jute Walls of BioFold

SAMIRA BOON, NPSP B.V., DOFACTORY EN WOLCK / BIOFOLD The biocomposite BioFold is made of textile waste and biobased plastics. The combination of origami

KERLOC FACADE TILES

Martens keramiek B.V. / Kerloc Kerloc is a cold ceramic material that is produced without any additional heating. The material is

BioLaminate with roadside grass

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

Poplar multiplex

ECOPLEX The poplar is a relatively fast-growing tree that grows close to home. By growing these trees along

Hemp Combind

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