Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Crear-Té Denisse Valdebenito (Chile) Yasmin Peña (Chile). Material made from organic materials capable of acquiring different shades, shapes and expelling a slight aroma of tea. Thanks to its plastic property, diverse configurations of modules and volumes can be obtained before drying it. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Tea residues. Pine Fibres. ————————————–…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Prentab Jocelyn Falcon (Chile) Valentina Arroyo (Chile). This material uses organic, natural and industrial waste. Prentab’s components make it resistant to high temperatures and wear. This material can last up to 3 years under favourable conditions. Prentab is a cheap material and can replace a commercial boards. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Eu-K Andrea Gutierrez (Chile) Franco Ruminot (Chile). Eu-k is a sensory material that boosts the organoleptic properties of eucalyptus leaves. These properties are intended to evoke memories, emotions and sensations. Eu-k is an ornamental material that expels a mentholated aroma. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Eucalyptus Leaves. ————————————– Images…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Tenua Raiza Saez (Chile) Tiare Romero (Chile). The material developed facilitates the recycling and reuse of plastic waste by not adding additives or toxic elements to its composition. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients LDPE plastic bags. ————————————– Images property of the material owners.
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Residual Esteban Meza (Chile) Pamela Salazar (Chile). The material has fireproof and abrasion resistance properties. Is an environmentally conscious material as it does not have toxic components and is 100% biodegradable. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Egg Shells. Egg Used Cartons. ————————————– Images property of the material owners.
Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description Hexapa Malen Coñuel (Chile). The developed material is 100% biodegradable. lt’s characterized by being flexible and acting as an acoustic and liquid absorbent. Offers fireproof and thermal insulation properties and encourages the recycling of household waste. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Potato Skin. Potato Starch. ————————————– Images property of…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Teco Konstanza Navarro (Chile), Rosario Villegas (Chile). Teco is a material 100% biodegradable and compostable. Is characterized by a strong coffee aroma, which is able to neutralize bad odors. The material is dense, tenacious and perfumed. The beeswax is used as a natural adhesive, replacing the conventional chemical ones. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Aglo Pplac Diego Flores (Chile), Valentina Ramirez (Chile). In Chile, 15% of the waste are cigarette ends. When adding cigarette ends to the composition of the material, it provides greater resistance to plastic through fibers. The material is resistant to torsion and bending. The colors may vary according to the plastic used. Material…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Fluff Jusso Koski (Finland), Valeria Munda (Italy), Eileen Krüger (Germany), Setareh Salehi (Iran). Fluff is a material that is mostly created from drying clothes in a dryer. Dry cleaners create significant amounts of fluff every day and it’s usually just thrown in the trash without any consideration of reuse. Fluff is also created…
Kingdom: Lapideum. //Description Melach Dajana Grubisič (Serbia), Ziyu Zhou (China), Nastaran Nikaeen (Iran), Nargess Shabani (Iran). A rough material with an irregular texture that reflects the light. Its main features are stiffness as well as resistance to a certain degree. In addition, its color varies depending on the colour and quantity of coloured sand used.…
Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description Daucus Chromatic Martina Kiselichka (Macedonia), Aleksandra Stosič (Italy), Sun Yaoyao (China), Xindi Wang (China). The material is made of ink and dye that comes from the extraction of the pigments, called anthocyanins, from the purple carrots. Those pigments have the ability to change in structure, characterized by a shift in hue from…
Kingdom: Animale. //Description Fish Scale Crystals Divya Thalani (India), Shan Pengcheng (China), Yang Yucheng (China), Athulya Pillai (India). The material is made from waste fish scales. The fish scales are made up of protein collagen. On boiling the fermentation of the collagen gives rise to resin like material. The denatures form of collagen can be…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Habitat Chia Hua Li (Taiwan), Qinyue Zhu (China), Serra Yilmaz (Turkey), Yimu Yang (China). In restaurants, seafood is common for making dishes. Noticing that mussel shells are fragile and without appealing color are useless and being thrown away. The material seeks to find a substitute to marble made from this abundant waste of…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Leek paper Xanthe Murphy (Australia), Lauren Nicholson (United Kingdom), Karen Ratering (The Netherlands), Madeleine Scully (Australia). Tea Brick: This materials development came from a desire to produce a solid material from disposed tea leaves. Tea is a disposable substance that is used to flavour water and is then disposed of, causing 4.01kg…
Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description Leek paper Esra Erdogan (Turkey), Claudia Fumagalli (Italy), Clemence Paillieux (France), Yui Hasegawa (Japan). A material made by drying layers of the leek. By changing different thickness it is possible to obtain several types of transparency. The material is complemented with ink which spread through the fibers of the leek adding patterns to…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Aplak Carla Cuevas (Chile), Giovannie Hernández (Chile). This material is made from 100% recycled raw materials. The main feature of Aplak is its antifungal property. Besides, Aplak is a thermic and acoustic insulator. This material can have a lifetime of 15 years. . Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Shredded…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Eco Gustavo Chávez (Chile), Mirko Smith (Chile). Eco is an eco-friendly material that uses textile waste as a raw material. Thanks to its roughness, it can be used as acoustic insulator. Also, Eco is material that can be manufactured in a domiciliary way. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Shredded…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Autumnplast Alexandra Gajardo (Chile), Catalina Salazar (Chile). Autumnplast is a material that combines organic and artificial waste. The latter, allows Autumnplast to have thermic and acoustic insulation properties. This material has great versatility and is also impermeable. lts colour configuration might change. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Shredded…
Kingdom: Lapideum. //Description Nacreto Carolina Alvear (Chile), Catalina Reyes (Chile). This material is intended to recover tons of mollusks that are discarded every day in the Bío Bío region. Nacreto has anti-slip features as well as thermal and electrical insulation properties. lt can be built without the need of industrial tools. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Naranbú Barbara Suárez (Chile), Camila Cabrera (Chile). This material comes from recycling of the household organic waste. lts composition makes it a sensory material, both for its citric aroma and for its porous texture. Besides, this material is impermeable due to its components. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Shredded plastic.…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description WoodPlas Christopher Arroyo (Chile), Rodrigo Garcés (Chile). This material addresses the issue of plastic and uses this waste as raw material. The result is a thermal and acoustic insulating material that can also resist chemicals. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Shredded plastic. Radiata Pine chips. ————————————– Images property…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Recitex Ana Vargas (Chile), Angélla Vargas (Chile). This new material offers a second life to textile waste and binds them without adding a chemical adhesive to its composition. Five to Seven-year of duration are estimated. Material Qualities Kingdom Attributes Specific Material Attributes Basic Ingredients Textile Waste (multifiber). ————————————– Images property of the…
Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description Refruit Ya Xiao (China), Lilach Pomerantz (Israel), Elena Sophia Di Giacinto (Italy). Robust and flexible material with a different level of roughness on each side. Colorful patterns occur by using fruits with contrasting colors. The sustainable material feature comes thanks to the fact that it gives the fruit a second life after…
Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description Veggie paper Mikaella Chrysostomou (Cyprus), Aysu Sani (Turkey), Panayiota Vasileiadou (Cyprus), Xiaodan Yang (China). The cellulose ingredients and the fibers which compose vegetables are the main ingredients of these materials. Mainly fibers from banana, celery, and spinach. WIth the same techniques used to create DIY recycled paper, these designers obtained a homogeneous…
Kingdom: Vegetabile. //Description GreeNet Helga Aversa (Italy), Aysecan Ertin (Turkey), Muyun Wang (China), Simona Bettoni (Italy). Is a material developed using celery fibers. The filament of the vegetable most of the time is unpleasant and is removed while cooking. Here the designers extract those fibers and let them dry. By twisting them like any other…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Marbile Ioanna Oikonomou (Greece), Yudan Yang (China), Marta Ziminska (Poland), Marina Psimikaki (Greece). Marbile is a material made out of textile structures that looks hard and dense but is surprisingly soft, it has sufficient flexibility to bow under pressure, and will not shatter if dropped. Blending different cotton threads result in exciting…
Kingdom: Recuperavit. //Description Butts Bunny Carolina Giorgiani (Italy), Jinan Jezzini (Romania), Davide Mosito (Italy). A semi-translucent material with a certain degree of flexibility depending on the number of butts inside it. It can also be colored with different natural ingredients. The material aims to be a provocation for a different use of a huge problem:…
Kingdom: Animale. //Description Gelawool Alexandra Bell (Australia), Angela Muñoz Correa (Colombia), Carolin Winandi (Germany), Francesca Queirolo (Chile). It is a flexible non-stretch material. It has a smooth surface while also giving the illusion of a wool texture. It can be molded into different shapes and thicknesses. “Gelawool” can be created using a gelatin mixture, combined…
