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Cast Aluminium

Project made with Cast Aluminium. The MAS-hand has been produced based on a copy of a human... Read more

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20 July

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23 June

At the Eindhoven University of Technology, dept. of Architecture, Building and Planning a PhD resear Read more

3 July

Hamburg-based company IQTEX has developed an innovative system which could revolutionalize shoe comf Read more

15 June

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has set a Read more

5 June

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17 January

Materia celebrates its 10th Anniversary this month! Founded for and by architects and designers, Mat Read more

8 January

In the world of commercial materials, lighter and cheaper is usually better, especially when those a Read more

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OLFactive™

MACtac Europe

Odour absorbing self-adhesive wall covering material, developed by researchers at MACtac Europe, the... Read more

KNOxOUT

Boysen(Pacific Paint Philippines, Inc.)

KNOxOUT is an air cleaning paint, using the CristalActiv photocatalytic technology. The ‘eco-active’... Read more

TioCem® with TX Active®

ENCI BV

TIOCEM® is a cement that is obtained by adding a carefully measured amount of nano crystalline titan... Read more

Rubber Rug

Annemette Beck

This is collection of rubber rugs from the Design Studio of Annemette beck. These rough rugs are mad... Read more

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Sustainable Dance Floor

A product that captures the energy produced by people and turns it into electricity.Through movement Read more

Sonomorph

is a manifestation of responsive complexity with the ability of particular materials undergoing visu Read more

Plastics: Materials for inspirational design

Plastic: Materials for Inspirational Design by Chris Lefteri is a journey exploring the material pro Read more

Lightness: The Inevitable Renaissance of Minimum Energy Structures

Isn't it strange that something as obvious as lightness as a means of reducing energy consumption ha Read more

Flying lightness, Promises for structural elegance

Against the background of gradually increasing travel speeds, Flying Lightness presents a heroic sur Read more

Pictures on the facade

PLUS Architects worked together in cooperation with the Youth Service, Education and Society in Rott Read more

Hanabi

The heat of the bulb makes this shape-memory alloy lamp "bloom" whenever the light is turned on. "ha Read more

Flytrap-Inspired Lenses

Imagine paint that adheres to a surface but releases on command, or road signs that change their ref Read more

Smart Clothes

Miniaturised biosensors in a textile patch that can analyse body fluids, and fabrics that create ene Read more

Interaction

Starting with this issue of A10, Els Zijlstra, director of Materia, will bring us up to speed on the Read more

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Inspiration

Smart

Intelligence: in materials, in processes, in design. What is smart? And how you use it to its best e... Read more

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