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07 February 2008

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This is the Materia Newsletter for January 2008, packed full of new materials, events and information.

10 years of Materia!

Materia celebrates its 10th Anniversary this month! Founded for and by architects and designers, Materia now has developed into a knowledge centre for material innovation in the field of architecture and design!
Team Materia

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In the spotlight

B-glass is a technique of a Frozen Explosion of glass. A sheet of tempered glass is sealed between panels. When it is shattered, numerous sparkling fragments are produced which glitter along the cracks. Each panel is original and unique in composition and colour. The glass is alive, it is changing and polyvalent. Suggestive as only transparency can be... read more

News

Your window as solar cell... For this you need a material that is very transparent but also able to absorb the sunlight. This seams impossible! but Afshin Hadipour of the University from Groningen has found a material than combines these properties. Imagine the possibilities of this material... read more

Your project here

Bone structured chair. PAN_07 is a digitally designed and manufactured chair. Similar to the structure of bones, one single material is used for the outer solid shell and an inner 3 dimensional support structure. Not only on the surface does the design follow the distribution of forces, but also internally. The supporting micro grid alters, depending on the required strength... read more

Events

The Surface Design Show. Since its debut in 2004, this event is the place where architects, interior designers and building specifiers can get in touch with hundreds of inspirational interior and exterior surface products. Will Alsop, one of the UK's most prominent and controversial architects will deliver the keynote speach at the Preview Evening ... read more

Inspiration

Alisa Andrasek is an experimental practitioner of architecture and computational processes in design. In 2001 she founded Biot(h)ing, a trans-disciplinary laboratory which research focuses on generative potential of physical and artificial computational systems for design. Andrasek graduated from the School of Architecture... read more

Materia books

The many requests for our book ‘Material Skills, evolution of materials' have led us to sales online, you can order this book through our website and pay by credit card. All orders are processed automatically and shipped by our distributor. If you have not yet ordered your own copy of ‘Material Skills, evolution of materials', order the book here now.

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