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The Growing Market for Facades: Recent Products to Enhance Face Value
Aparna Rao September 28, 2019 at 05:36 PM
There can be no end to the quest for the ultimate beautification of our face – it is one that has transcended millennia and will continue to do so for ever. So also in architecture is the quest for innovative ways of projecting an impressive façade. Even the brutalists, with all their materia... read more ›
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Binishell inflatable concrete
Riddhi Shah March 01, 2017 at 01:01 PM
Concrete as a building material, is a dream for an architect. The material scores high on two most important criteria - strength and flexibility - to become the most sought-after material in construction. Since the use of this material, spanning a greater distance has been made easy. Also achieving variou... read more ›
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Eco-fabrics: bizarre innovations for a sustainable future
Riddhi Shah February 01, 2017 at 04:18 PM
The earliest form of fabrics known to mankind is animal skin and banana leaves. Historically speaking, fabric has always been spun or hand woven using natural materials like linen, wool, flax. It is much later, with Industrial revolution, that machine made and synthetic fabric was widely used. According t... read more ›
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BIOMASONS GROW BRICKS FROM BACTERIA
Riddhi Shah August 13, 2016 at 04:46 PM
As the world today sees issues like global warming and climate change spiraling, there is a growing sense of urgency to combat them before the situation gets out of hand. A huge contributor of global warming is the construction industry. Buildings are the largest consumers of energy and emitters of greenh... read more ›
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Concrete Canvas: Revolutionary Product, Untapped Potential
Aparna Rao April 27, 2016 at 05:26 PM
Just Imagine, the concrete lining for a ditch or bund arriving in a roll of cloth, just needing to be rolled out in place, cut to size, stitched, watered and dried to be ready to use. Or a military or refugee tent arrives in a bag, just inflate, wet and dry it to get a strong and durable shelter…&n... read more ›
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Building Materials of the Future: Self-Healing & Self- Preserving
Aparna Rao December 08, 2015 at 02:29 PM
Concrete cracks, making a building dangerous to inhabit, asphalt caves in to form life threatening potholes on roads and metals get dented and torn in response to applied stresses, not to speak of a limited lifespan beyond which these are not expected to last. The current answer to these problems lies in ... read more ›
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Terracotta Exteriors: Strong & Sustainable Option
Aparna Rao November 28, 2015 at 07:44 PM
It’s hardly a surprise that from the earth must come one of the strongest, climate friendly, sustainable, timeless and long lasting building material solutions. For, what better than the earth itself to sustain life on it? ‘Terracotta’, a word of Italian origin meaning ‘baked earth... read more ›
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Interior Construction Materials: "Green" Choices
Aparna Rao October 31, 2015 at 02:50 PM
Yes, ‘Green’ is the way to go. We have finally realised after a century of mindless consumption leading to near depletion of our natural resources and unaccountable harm to our home planet that we need to act, to do something about it. And, just as we start making environment friendly choices ... read more ›
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The Magic Of The Faux Wood Tile
Aniruddha Mahale November 14, 2014 at 08:30 PM
A versatile flooring material that be used indoors or outdoors, with the beauty of luxury hardwood, and the price of ordinary tile -  faux wood tile is here to stay, and ‘floor’ us away. read more ›
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Materials for the future of Design! Part I
Aniruddha Mahale November 14, 2014 at 08:27 PM
Research and Innovation lead to new materials and in turn, new materials and products bring a whole new approach to design! They radically alter the process of concept development; as designers and architects try to explore the potential of the new material! Here are just some of the wonderful new materia... read more ›
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