Materiality is a determining factor in shaping the character and experience of a building. Playing with the aesthetic and tactile qualities of materials, the design process encompasses their analysis, ...

While materials design used to be ruled by traditional engineering and chemical approaches, researchers have progressively found that Nature has lessons to teach. Large numbers of studies have ...

The UK’s PLP Architects is focused on creating a greener future by collaborating with nature, developing a fungus-based modular block that is renewable and biodegradable, and has the potential to ...

The use of natural materials in construction continues to rise as AEC teams look to both reduce their carbon footprint and create an environment that fosters wellness and harmony with nature. From the ...

Lola Ben-Alon experiments with digital earth-fiber basket weaving at GSAPP. (Courtesy GSAPP Natural Materials Lab/Omer Mohamed Gorashi) “I don’t have any expectations that we will be building ...

Moving towards modernity implies questioning established concepts. Today, we are witnessing several projects and approaches in architecture that explore alternatives to energy-intensive building ...

I built a weatherproof A-frame hut entirely from natural materials. The design shed water and resisted wind effectively.

A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...