Theme: Biobased Materials

Moderator: Daan Bruggink

Title: Building Healthy Buildings

Gerrit-Jan Teunissen is consultant at TRAJECT Adviseurs & Managers, specialized in energy, sustainability and health & wellbeing in the build environment. This session provides insight in methods which lead to application of healthy materials in buildings. The choice of materials is not been considered as important as other key issues such as energy performance. But nowadays, building materials determine if a building could be considered as green, sustainable or healthy. So do we know when to make important choices and where are these based on? There are a lot of methods/structures available who can assist in determining the materials which suit your project at best. This session is intended to provide insight in building and material certification, what driving factors they have, how to work with them and how the market is using them, illustrated by examples.

Title: Bio-based cork polymer compounds – Sustainable solutions

Lisete Moutinho is technical Manager at Amorim Cork Composites since 2016 in Innovation Department with academic background of Biochemistry and currently PDh student in Materials’ Engineering and Science.

Title: Biomaterials from the Ocean: Building with Seaweed, Seagrass and Shell

Kathryn Larsen was born and raised in the US, but is now based in The Netherlands and Denmark. She is a Masters thesis candidate at the TU Delft Architecture track (2020-2022), and recipient of several grants from Boligfonden Kubens Spirekasse to fund her experimental research studio. She is the owner of Studio Kathryn Larsen, where she combines her practical architectural technologist education with a tactile design process, that involves sketching, drawing by hand, and material experimentation.

Title: Biobased en biofilische architectuur (NL)

Daan Bruggink is an architect and founder of ORGA architect. ORGA is an innovative architectural firm and forerunner in the field of biobased and biophilic architecture. His projects are all examples of buildings in which nature is maximally integrated.

We are all still 99% coded of course. The more nature in and around our buildings, the better for our well-being, concentration and production. Lots of light, air and greenery suit us. Daan Bruggink of ORGA architect explains how a more natural and biophilic architecture makes us healthier. Natural materials, wood construction, lots of greenery in the building characterize this architecture. He explains this on the basis of primary school De Verwondering in Almere. In 2021, it won the Golden Frog for the most sustainable project in the Netherlands!

Theme: Tomorrow’s Timber

Moderator: Daan Bruggink

Title: The Timber Building Revolution; biobased building from margin to mainstream – part 1: the why

TED speaker Pablo van der Lugt (PhD, MSc Eng) is a passionate advocate of high performance bio-based materials. In the vision of van der Lugt in the essential transition towards a more circular economy there are tremendous opportunities for smart bio-based materials made from fast-growing resources such as (modified) softwood and (engineered) giant bamboo, to substitute carbon intensive, high performance materials from the techno-cycle such as metals, minerals and plastics (PVC). Van der Lugt is the author of 5 books on sustainable building materials, including Booming Bamboo (2017) and Tomorrow’s Timber.

Titel: The Timber Building Revolution; biobased building from margin to mainstream – part 2: The how

Atto Harsta, building technologist and industrial designer, realises sustainable and healthy living environments. He combines natural wonder and creativity with a social incentive. His most important source of inspiration is nature in which, through evolution, perfect simplicity is combined with functionality and beauty.

Title: Grote houten, modulaire, betaalbare, duurzame woonprojecten (NL)

Title:  SAWA: Towards the timber revolution