Together - Productmakers & Architects/developers - we develop space for Biobased Design and ensure project application. With 30 makers of Biobased design and more than 100 registrations from the agency/developer side, we get a better picture of needs and possibilities, build bridges, actively think along and ensure findability and meetings in favor of biobased (re)construction and above all, not to forget! equally needed biobased interior design. Not least in response to the polluting Fast Furniture Industry and art world, which still produce extensively in our country and still take up the majority of renowned fairs. Do you choose truly sustainable when it comes to the interior?

We are vigorously delaying this year and are definitively putting together our program with your feedback. Bring on your suggestions. Creators received an invitation survey. As a result, we organize joint video meetings. Our suggestions are that we meet, of course online on the platform and also live, during a

• Collective presentation at Dutch Design Week (DDW) with a SUPERBios Collective
• Participate in Architect@Work the fair for architects. And we choose
• Pilot projects with interior and project construction – to accelerate group awareness of and biobased design.
  

Handbook of Wood Construction in Detail
Built by Nature, Urban Climate Architects and Maatworks

With the ‘HANDBOOK OF WOOD CONSTRUCTION IN DETAIL’  brings Urban Climate Architects and Maatworks reference details and lessons from 20 residential buildings in detail in pictures. Built by Nature initiated the research conducted by Urban Climate Architects and MAATworks with the aim of truly accelerating the scale-up of biobased construction. Say it on, keep saying that this valuable manual is there to fellow architects and other biobased building interested parties.

We received the manual on the day before Biobased Construction on March 26 in The Hague - Province of South Holland. Thanks for that!

This great book can be ordered directly for €45 excl. VAT and shipping costs. Send an email to amystuik@ucarchitects.com with your name, address and billing address.

If you have interesting information or project photos for us, we would of course like to receive your message.

Biobased & Design value

The design is an essential part of product development.
It determines for a very large, still subordinated part, the success of a product maker, a company and a successful project.  Biobased Design made with materials such as hemp, micanthus, straw, wool, linen, mycelium, wood and clay, offer new design options. The material alone, without design value, quickly ends up in a price battle. From an aesthetic point of view and distinction, originality must be sought. We are in a Next Design Decade; the best ever. The biobased materials form the starting point. They are environmentally friendly, directly reducing CO2, nature-restoring and in the best cases regenerative. The rethinking by Makers and (interior) architects is a very creative process that, after decades of artificial, polluting products and production processes, gives us very innovative and healthy spaces. The innovation production techniques open even more design doors.

(Interior) architects initially fall for the design. After the inspiration, application possibilities come into the picture and of course the technical aspects and the LCA.

‘The design is the first thing that catches the eye and makes the (interior) architect curious to consider a product for project application.‘

What is good design? And why does much more money have to go there?

Good design is a combination of factors. Consider an original shape, suitable for the material properties, whether or not specialized by additions such as binders and coating. It is suitable for professional application in the intended market. The product is a logical whole.

Design that distinguishes itself and makes it unique in a positive way forms the identity of a label, a total collection and contributes essentially to the right to exist and success of companies..

Fringe Surface by Atelier Fig. is such a good example.

'The Fringe Surface is an experimental application resulting from materials research into the working of raw clay. The Fringe collection was created from a visual fascination with cutting clay with a wire: a technique that developed from a playful gesture to an independent design method, in which both functional and sculptural qualities are explored.

Although this application has not yet been concretely realized, the Fringe Surface is ideally suited for use as wall coverings, especially in the form of exterior facade tiles. The layered, ragged texture emphasizes the natural identity of clay, according to Gijs Wouters and Ruben Hoogvliet, and emphasizes imperfection, craft and the tension between control and chance'

An extensive collection of tableware and other objects has already been published in Fringe style. It is very educational for makers to discover the properties of the materials based on this.

ATTENTION: Kansen in GHENT for good design;
also inspiring to visit October 3 to 11.

Design Museum Ghent invites Designers:
"During the grand reopening of design museum Ghent, the display cases of various design and interior design shops will be transformed into small exhibition spaces in the city from October 3 to 11 a.s."  

If you want to show your design in Belgium, register before April 26!
This way you can become one of the 25 designers who will have a place in the city course'  

Let us know if we can!

(Cooperation) wishes or ideas? Anyway, we'd love to hear from you.

Contributions in this email newsletter:

• Atelier Fig. - Atelier Fig. Design and Biobased Interior Product offering
• Urban Climate Architects - ‘HANDBOOK OF WOOD CONSTRUCTION IN DETAIL’
• Design Museum Ghent - Reopening and city trail Ghent October 3 to 11
• See also the presented biobased constructionprojects from the Biobased Building South Holland Network.
• WDH-NL/SuperBio's - initiative taker, Wilma Dijkgraaf-Hofmeijer