Demonstration project with the Robot Lab wall panel, made from residual wood It is the true eye-catcher of the restaurant at Bowling Leeuwarden: the wall with the wooden panels. The panels were designed at the Robot Lab of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and are entirely made from …

Wood is an increasingly demanded renewable resource and an important raw material for construction and materials. Demands are rising, with a growing attention for re-use and upcycling, opening up opportunities for new business models, empowered by the use of digital design and technologies. A KPI framework …

Across cities and urban regions in The Netherlands unusual collaborations emerge which aim to develop new circular business models that facilitate product and resource longevity through various upcycling strategies, such as reuse, repair, refurbish, repurpose and/or remanufacture. Municipalities, social …

Repurpose is becoming more popular as a circularity strategy. This circularity strategy is specifically promising in the case of furniture. One of the challenges of upscaling repurpose is the negative consumer perception of repurposed products. Studies up to date pertain to consumer perception of refurbished …

Construction industry and interior architecture are increasingly using wood, driving up demand and depleting wood resources. Yet large quantities of uncontaminated, high-quality material end up burned or downcycled into chipboard, because it is too costly to manually sort and process large volumes of …

De digitale wereld ontwikkelt zich in een razendsnel tempo. Overheden, bedrijven en burgers worden dagelijks geconfronteerd met nieuwe technologieën, digitale processen en de regelgeving die daarmee gepaard gaat. Hoewel digitale regels vaak op nationaal, en meestal zelfs op Europees niveau worden opgesteld, …

Urban areas provide a promising context for upcycling due to the concentration of consumers and existence of bulky waste resources. Hence, upcycling initiatives emerge across European cities, but little is known about their manifestations. Building on interviews with twenty-four stakeholders from the …

BranchOut explores how tree forks—usually treated as waste—can become valuable construction elements by leveraging their strong, continuous wood grain. Because their irregular shapes don’t fit standard building and CNC processes, the project developed new methods for harvesting, drying, and preparing …

Twee woorden lopen als een rode draad door deze rede: afbakenen en samenwerken. Deze twee begrippen lijken op het eerste gezicht misschien weinig met elkaar te maken te hebben. Afbakenen suggereert namelijk grenzen stellen, terwijl samenwerken juist op verbinding zoeken duidt. Maar voor de jurist van …