Posts Tagged ‘repurposed’

Greenscreen

Greenscreen is a landscape trellis system for fencing, wall-mounted applications, or freestanding enclosures. When combined with a variety of climbing vines, Greenscreen becomes a “living wall” that can provide privacy, shading and cooling, security and spatial definition, and acts as an effective...

January 6th, 2010 | metals | Read More

Mycobond

Mycobond is a mycological bio-composite that can be used in a wide variety of applications. Instead of conventional manufacturing processes, Mycobond uses mycelium—which is essentially the root system of a mushroom—to transform loose aggregates into strong composites. This process can be varied by...

December 11th, 2009 | feature, fiber | Read More

Bicicleta

Barcelona-based Nanimarquina addresses the problem of waste directly in their carpets. Bicicleta gives a second life to discarded bicycle inner tubes from the city of Panipat, in northern India, where this rug is produced. Its ingenious hand-crafted design makes it possible to transfer rubber from the...

November 20th, 2009 | feature, rubber | Read More

Luna

Luna is a unique cast glass building material that contains a phosphorescent chemical, absorbing light during the day and glowing for hours at night. Luna is manufactured using glass recycled from car windshields and is ideal for bar fronts, tops, feature walls, flooring applications, or any interior...

November 18th, 2009 | feature, glass | Read More

Origins

Origins one hundred percent postconsumer recycled polyethylene panels provide an alternative to virgin polyethylene versions. Origins panels possess virtually identical properties compared with virgin panels, and they are available in numerous colors and patterns, including custom patterns. Origins material...

November 16th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

Bella Rifatta

Designed by William Sawaya, Bella Rifatta is a stackable chair made of recycled PET. It is available in white, gray, and black with a matte finish. The chair is appropriate for outdoor as well as indoor use and is stackable up to twenty pieces. The Bella Rifatta is also available in semitransparent polycarbonate...

November 7th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

Stones

Tempered transparent glass is used in the construction industry for windows and other applications. Construction glass is often over-ordered to account for breakage during shipping and installation. Unused tempered glass from construction and renovation sites that cannot be processed any further often...

October 23rd, 2009 | feature, glass | Read More

Veritas ResinArt

Veritas ResinArt is a fully interchangeable system of colors, patterns, textures, and materials within a multilayered, translucent PETG resin. Designed by Maybeth Shaw and manufactured by Schneller, Veritas is a customizable resin-based panel system—designers can create and order custom samples using...

October 16th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

Richlite

Richlite panels are extremely dense, strong, and stable and are made of layered craft paper (or abacca fibers in the case of Richlite Hemp). The material was originally developed for the aerospace industry as tooling, the marine industry as fiberglass reinforcement, and most recently the action sports...

October 14th, 2009 | feature, paper | Read More

Ecosmart

Concrete, a universal construction material synonymous with strength and longevity, is relatively benign in nature. However, the production of Portland cement, which is an essential constituent of concrete, leads to the release of significant amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (producing one...

October 11th, 2009 | concrete, feature | Read More