Merging Structural Engineering and Care for Communities

How Matter found a unique and inspiring new home in the Design District

The Curious Case of Paper As Structure

Structural design using paper

Adaptive Reuse of the Good Old Buildings

Recycle and Reused

Shifting Mindset to Materialising Collaborations at Matter

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.

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:

The value systems around production, consumption, design, and decision-making pioneered in the Chinese and other Asian cultures, are inseparable from sustainability and circularity. The simplest example is that of Bamboo - from chopsticks to hairpins to mats and building structures, a material that is as strong as it is versatile and as cost-effective as it is eco-friendly.

Celebrating Timber Structures and Spatial Experience - Five Case studies of Architecture in Wood from Asia

From Trees to Timber - Exploring Wood for Construction and Ecological Regeneration of Forests