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BIOBASED CREATIONS – The Exploded View

How do we deal with the never-ending waste flows? Will agriculture become a future supplier of building materials? And will this help keep our sustainable homes affordable? The Exploded View Materials & Methods investigates these questions, and invites everyone to participate in this thinking process. The realisation of a home is looked at from a radically new angle. The Exploded View analyses the many applications of a home with great precision, and then reconstructs it with bio-based materials. Lose yourself in a model and a life-size blueprint that highlight both what they have already discovered, but also what they do not yet know.

The installation incorporates applications and materials from today, tomorrow and even the day after tomorrow, ranging from products that already exist, but are still not commonly used on building sites, to ideas that will need a lot of support and research to become fully developed. The Exploded View thereby refers to the endless, potential material flows that do exist, but are not yet or hardly ever used in the building trade. Food remnants, textiles, (waste) water or bacteria: nothing is excluded or found to be unsuitable. Innovative construction methods such as local mining, 3D printing and a circular economy also have a part to play in the research. In every case, the purpose is to use materials and methods that make the production circle as small and efficient as possible. 

The Exploded View, developed by Biobased Creations in conjunction with The Embassy of Circular & Biobased Building, a group of pioneers from the circular and bio-based construction sector, serves as inspiration for the circular and bio-based building sector. It shows citizens, builders and policymakers the surprising opportunities and attractions. The unthinkable is possible. The power of imagination is heralding a green future.