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Papercrete is a construction material made from waste paper, for affordable, sustainable housing. The name implies a mix of paper and concrete, hence paper-crete. Papercrete can be mixed in many ways. Paper is principally wood cellulose, which is considered a fibrous material. Cellulose is the second most abundant material on earth after rock, and is [...]

A first hackteria workshop has been going on last week at NK, Berlin. First of all, it was great fun and we could get the project a big step further. go to the hackteria webpage for a detailed description. and see our pictures on flickr the topic of the workshop was to build your own little microscope using [...]

There is a really interesting lab at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture. The Centre for Architecural structures and Technology, C.A.S.T. Not only is it an acronym but also the main part of their research, forming and casting of reinforced concrete using fabric forms.

Philip Ball in an interview with Jennifer Leonard (for the book Massive Change): “It’s about moving away from the classical idea of materials – inert stuff that serves a structural role – toward the more contemporary notion of materials. More and more, materials are active and respond to stimuli in their environment. Materials can light [...]