Composite Materials

Building a New World: Lunar Concrete Could Transform Moon Colonization by 2034

As scientists develop groundbreaking techniques to build on the Moon using lunar concrete, the future of space colonization and extraterrestrial construction draws closer, reshaping space exploration forever.

Advances in Fabric Technology Point to a Promising Future

Is There New Hope for Plastic?

Introducing Scrapflation, a Superior Option to Shrinkflation and Skimpflation

Hemp: The Next Disruptor in Construction After Wood?

Architectural Education and the Future of Wood

Material Trends to Watch in 2019

Repurposing Food Waste as Alternative Building Materials

Seven Surfacing Styles for Countertops and Beyond

The Next Trend in Roofing: Solar Tiles

This Week in Tech: PriestmanGoode and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Unveil a Full-Scale Hyperloop Prototype

3D Printing and Swarm Robotics Merge in Neri Oxman’s Fiberbots

Concrete, It’s Electric!

A Backwards Approach to Material Innovation

Dazed and … Constructed? How Hemp Could Alter Material Selections in Architecture

Material Strategies for Sustainable Construction

R+D Awards Honorable Mention: Infundibuliforms—Kinetic Tensile Surface Environments

Neri Oxman Designs Rottlace, a Series of 3D-Printed Masks for Björk

If You Build It Weather-Tight, People Will Come

The Living and Autodesk Apply Bionic Design to an Airbus 320 Partition