Bioplastic
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News • News • 23 Dec 2020
The future of architecture through 10 biobased materials
As more architects, and their clients, prioritize sustainability goals and the connection to site and history, biobased materials are being more frequently used to create buildings around the globe. These materials, viewed through the lens of contemporary architecture, are creating distinctive structures that lean on the past but are decidedly of the moment. From timber frames to biobased plastics, these elements are creating new spaces that will help define the trajectory of architecture for years to come. Encompassing exhibition spaces, private homes, and more, 10 examples show us where this attention to natural materials may take architecture in the coming decades.
Matthew Millman
1. Earth - House of Earth and Sky by Ai... More
Product • By Do Shop • Kuskoa Bi - Chair
Kuskoa Bi - Chair
The comfortable and generously sized Kuskoa Bi is the first chair on the market to be manufactured in Bioplastic. Its particularly enveloping shell, cut out in such a way as to optimize back and arm support, is delicately placed on a solid wood trestle. An upholstered version is also available.
After having worked together for several years, Jean Louis Iratzoki and Ander Lizaso have teamed up to create Iratzoki Lizaso, a multi disciplinary design studio that aims to design from the Basque Country. Their collaboration with ALKI is very long standing.
Alki´s path started in 1981 in a small village in the northern Basque Country, in Itsasu. In a time of economic difficulties a group of five friends founded a small chair factory that was... More