Biocircular design studio Omlab is not a standard design agency.
Omlab is a re-think tank that designs for infrastructure and ecologically sound construction, without an ounce of concrete. From experimental, speculative to proof of concept.
In collaborations with construction and education, the designers work towards concrete applications. In exhibitions the studio makes visible what the impact can be.
Nominations & awards
Audience Award Gelderse Circulaire Innovatie 2020
Change Makers Award 2022, nominatie Change Inc.
Dutch Design Award 2023, nomination category product
Ruud van Berkel Award (Heembouw), winner testing ground 2023
Exposities
Possible Landscapes
High sandy grounds De Achterhoek, Dutch Design Week 2023
Regenerative city: biodegradable slope tile, Dutch Design Week 2023
The Exploded View Materials & Methods (info)
Dutch Design Week 2020-2021
Design Museum, Gent (België) 2021
Design by Nature, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle 2021-2022
Regional and in-company presentations, have a look at biobasedcreations.nl
The Exploded View Beyond Building (info)
Dutch Design Week 2021
Floriade 2021-2022
Kamp C (Belgium) 2022-2023
More exhibitions
- European Patent Office, Rijswijk (Upload for Noor Nuyten) 2023
- Material +, Neues Museum Nürnberg (Germany) 2023
- Paper Art, CODA Apeldoorn 2023
- Biodesign, grondstoffen van de toekomst, CODA Apeldoorn 2022
More info
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For projects or developments, contact Margreet van Uffelen, co-founder, +31 6 4148 0244 / margreet @ omlab.nl.
Strong as gypsum concrete
With Buildmatterial, Omlab was a participant in TNO Fieldlab – National Emission-Free Construction Program (2021-2023).
Buildmaterial Omlab 98% raw materials from sewage and drinking water treatment.
Strength class: C8
As strong as gypsum concrete
Preliminary Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
MKI: 0.011 (concrete 0.0252)
KgCO2-eq: 0.14 (concrete 0.257)
Density: 1.5 per liter (concrete 2.7)
Material prototypes (selection)
Itbettermatter
Omlabs first material prototype made of resources from drinking water and sewage water purification
Buildmatterial
Omlabs strong as gypsum concrete material prototype made of resources from drinking water and sewage water purification
98% biocircular (of which 60% tertiairy: used, recycled and then flushed and purified resources)
2% biobased (primary resource)
Omlab x Dungse (Lindey Cafsia)
Omlab helped to develop cow dung into a 3d-printable material prototype
Omlab x Bruil
Material prototype twice as strong as Buildmatterial
Biocircular and circular resources from the building sector itself
Omlab x Noor Nuyten
Material prototype made out of the archive of the European Patent Office
As a development and design studio, Omlab can develop most biocircular resources into 3d-printable material prototypes. Without the use of minerals, fossil resources or nature unfriendly chemicals.
Omlab x WFBR (WUR)
Biocircular material research, in close co-operation with Wageningen Food and Biobased Research (WFBR | WUR)
The aim is to improve the life span and water tightness of Buildmatterial, without affecting the degree of biodegradability
Photo Suzanne Valkenburg
