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

Architizer

Participants were encouraged to explore construction techniques using recycled materials, buying into the farm’s sustainable ethos, and demonstrating the potential of urban waste as a building material. The post Deconstruction by Design: How Architects Are Redefining Practice Through Material Reuse appeared first on Journal.

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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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Five designers in Mexico exhibit new uses for biomaterials

Deezen

Called Deconstructed Home, the exhibition was set up as part of a two-week programme organised by Space10 , a research arm of IKEA. Taking note of the dwindling populations of the melipona, a stingless bee native to Yucatán, Calvillo drew on Mayan apiary techniques used for millennia. Articles of Protection by Taina Campos.

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Ten exhibitions for design lovers during Mexico City art week

Deezen

Drawing influence from the menu of Contramar chef Gabriela Cmara, the studio will showcase its newest collections alongside deconstructed cuisines, set in scenography laden with palma. The work will include ceramic works for the home created using techniques Taller Los Tepalcates has for years put to use in their vibrant ceramic sculptures.

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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.

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Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art presents 15 textile design student projects

Deezen

The process involves mixing biologically degradable short linen fibres from SwissFlax with cotton to develop a better-quality yarn that can then be manufactured into textiles. Through the conscious application of the processing techniques, my aim is to create potential – new combinations, effects and atmospheres. "I

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Lucerne School of Art and Design presents 15 textiles design student projects

Deezen

The process involves mixing biologically degradable short linen fibres from SwissFlax with cotton to develop a better-quality yarn that can then be manufactured into textiles. Through the conscious application of the processing techniques, my aim is to create potential – new combinations, effects and atmospheres. "I

Students 119