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Sustainable Building Models: An Eco-Friendly Structure in Natural Slate Within a Multi-Ecological Neighborhood

ArchDaily

Today, we are witnessing several projects and approaches in architecture that explore alternatives to energy-intensive building systems, materials , and technologies commonly used in today's construction. These projects, far from adopting approaches that reject technology, seek to promote conscious architectural practices. Read more »

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IOAN’s Joshua Tree residence sets natural materials against a desert backdrop

Archinect

“We were determined to minimize disruptions of the natural landscape, so our design focused on integration that wouldn’t disturb the surrounding plants and natural geography of the land.

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Minimizing Wood Waste by Respecting Its Natural Form Through AI

ArchDaily

With various examples across different scales and applications, the material has shown promise in revolutionizing the industry by enhancing efficiency, strength, and comfort. Even when dealing with highly standardized and efficient processes in the manufacturing of structural elements, there is always room for improvement and waste reduction.

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Expanding the Architectural Prospects of Timber in Its Natural Form

ArchDaily

Image © Valerie Bennett Timber has been a popular source of construction material for thousands of years. However, these processes can sometimes alter the basic lines of wood structure. The stems can be split, grain patterns changed, and some woods, such as oak and cedar, are easily reduced while others can become intractable.

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Sagrada Familia shows stone "can return to being used as a structural material"

Deezen

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 Stone has become a luxury cladding material, whether used as a rainscreen, or as floor tiling," Carfrae told Dezeen. "We

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Studio Gang begins construction on Parisian university built with 50 per cent natural materials

Deezen

The University of Chicago John W Boyer Center was designed by Studio Gang in accordance with the French sustainability law requiring new public buildings to be built from at least 50 per cent wood or other natural materials. The centre will have a mass timber structure.

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Making Every Part of Architecture Visible: Kim Lenschow Exposes the Hidden Story of Materials

ArchDaily

In doing so, we also fail to understand its impact on us and on the larger systems of nature. Office Kim Lenschow aims to draw attention to this and to provoke critical thinking in relation to architecture and the materials that make it.

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