Bentu Just Built Furniture From Cities That No Longer Exist - Yanko Design

"The construction waste left behind, concrete fragments, red brick rubble, mortar dust, all the physical remnants of places that used to be someone's home, is processed and reactivated into cement-based printable materials. The project achieves an 85% utilization rate of that solid waste. That figure alone is worth pausing on, because most recycled design projects deal in far smaller percentages and still get praised for it."

"Before a village is demolished, the team documents the site photographically. Those images are run through image-processing algorithms to extract the dominant color values of that specific place: the iron-red of old bricks, the cement-grey of concrete, embedding the visual memory of the demolished community directly into the material composition of the furniture."

Cities worldwide face destruction through redevelopment or conflict, leaving rubble that raises questions about preservation and reuse. Bentu Design addresses this challenge through "Inorganic Growth: The Regeneration of Urban Village Memory," a project that converts construction waste from demolished Chinese urban villages into furniture. The process extracts concrete fragments, red brick rubble, and mortar dust, processing them into cement-based printable materials with an exceptional 85% utilization rate. Large-scale 3D printing builds each piece layer by layer, creating textured, geological qualities. The project combines technical innovation with philosophical depth by documenting demolished sites photographically and extracting dominant color values to embed the specific place's visual identity into the final furniture pieces.

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