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The Spirit of Sustainability: Designing with Ghost Materials

Architizer

In 19th-century Northern Britain, slag bricks, otherwise known as Scoria brick, were manufactured as iron production ramped up. Their WasteBasedBricks are made using demolition rubble from urban deconstruction sites and give a second life to materials that would otherwise be crushed into low-grade aggregate.

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Deconstruction by Design: How Architects Are Redefining Practice Through Material Reuse

Architizer

By repurposing materials salvaged from demolition or renovation projects, architects and builders can significantly reduce the demand for new resources, hence mitigating the environmental impact associated with the extraction and manufacturing processes of new materials. The judging process for Architizer's 12th Annual A+Awards is now away.

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Flipster seat by Wigiwama among eight new products on Dezeen Showroom

Deezen

Dezeen Showroom: a modular seat that can be deconstructed into children 's play apparatus is among eight new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. The Flipster seat can be used as low chair, deconstructed to be used as a lounger or further taken apart for use in fort building or other types of imaginative play.

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IAAC creates mobile Moca dwelling with openable fabric facades

Deezen

The challenge was to manufacture a mobile home with wood, using the materials and tools that we have at Valldaura Labs so that it met the requirements of a mobile construction at a regulatory and functional level," MAEBB co-director Vicente Guallart told Dezeen.

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Previously unrecycleable clothing made into Fibers Unsorted textile

Deezen

The Fibers Unsorted project started with development and engineering company Imat-Uve , which began researching methods of deconstructing mixed textiles into usable fibres in 2013, setting out to spin them into yarns that could compete with their predecessors in terms of quality.

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen transforms cement factory into West Bund Art Center

Deezen

The old factory has a domed structure "We first visited the West Bund area around 2010, when the deconstruction of the former wet cement factory had begun, and the dome structure stood at the heart of the vast industrial site," said principal design director Chris Hardie.

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Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

Dwell

The big change in shipping logistics came when furniture manufacturers developed new ways of deconstructing and flat-packing their product, allowing sofas to be shipped via regular carriers, both more cheaply and more quickly. Manufacturers realized they could cut all kinds of corners, from materials to process.