Thoughts

Curiosity drives us to keep on learning, so that we can create ever better, more sustainable structural designs. Here’s our thinking.

 

Christina Hsieh Christina Hsieh

Matter is a proud finalist in the Greenwich Business Awards

It was a real honour to find ourselves shortlisted in the Best of Royal Greenwich Business Awards 2022, alongside such an impressive list of fantastic local businesses. We were particularly thrilled to be Digital Award finalists, recognised for our use of digital technologies to improve our service, raise awareness and better serve our customers.

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Christina Hsieh Christina Hsieh

Shaping Sustainability in Structural Design (Part I)

We took a deep dive into ‘Shaping Sustainability in structural design. The critical value of Sustainability in the Building and Construction Industry comes from its bidirectional significance between the designers and the design.

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Christina Hsieh Christina Hsieh

The Many Faced-Cane: Five Projects that push the boundaries of Bamboo in Design

As a widely known ecologically beneficial and culturally rooted building material in Asia and parts of South America, Bamboo has led the steady economic and infrastructural transformation of many local craftsman communities into enterprises in the rural to peri-urban areas. Its marvellously adaptive nature makes it suitable for a variety of different building elements - all the way from scaffolding and formwork, to foundations, walls, and roofs. Here are five case studies that portray Bamboo at its functional, aesthetic, and structural best:

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