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This week the latest achievements of the Buzao workshop, a Chinese workshop that sublimates the material used, are presented at the Shanghai Design Show. After having revisited ceramics and concrete, here are some beautiful benches and tables. The Hot collection, in steel with titanium anodizing treatment, playing on the random, flashy, psychedelic side of the multicolored electrochemical deposit, while the Null range is more in "calm, luxury and voluptuousness" atmosphere, with a range of glass furniture with a subtle gradient of blue, all in transparency and play with light.
If you're in the area, why not go to the Neuni matériO showroom in Shanghai!

Buzao website
Neuni matériO' website

A collaboration between the Reef Design Lab and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, this project, supported by Volvo, is an interesting example of what biomimesis can lead to: The 3D printing of about fifty hexagonal tiles made of concrete reinforced with recycled plastic fibre directly fixed on the seawalls along Sydney Bay in order to encourage the proliferation of marine fauna and flora on the coast. The holding of these tiles is directly inspired by the tangle of the Mangrove trees root system, known to be perfect marine refuges, and on its porous and furrowed surface, which seems to have been created by the gentle water erosion. Marine biodiversity should therefore instinctively cling to it, and molluscs in particular are expected for their amazing filtration and purification capacities (oysters for example), which should find houses more welcoming and protective than on conventional linear dikes, and settle peacefully there to work quietly to recover marine biodiversity.

That's it, they did it! This German start-up referenced in the base for two years for its revolutionary magnetic concrete has just signed a first major contract in Finland where magnetic bituminous concrete is used in the construction of loading stations for public transport vehicles. This concrete is heavily loaded with magnetic aggregates from electronic waste, it is easy to produce, based on low cost materials, and its ferrite load offers this particular ability to transmit electricity or heat. This advance makes it possible to imagine walls or heating roads, or as in Finland, the static or dynamic recharging of electric vehicles by induction. If tomorrow the cars have the opportunity to recharge by rolling, it reduces all the necessary space for batteries!