THE BODY BUILDING

Driven to incorporate 'bodily' qualities into a building, the designers worked together with Werkstatt and Houben van Mierlo. The result is special: The Body Building is the first dwelling in the Netherlands constructed out of bio-based Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and insulated with Lime Hemp, providing a healthy ‘breathing' interior climate while storing over 200 tonnes of C0 2... In these digital and virtual times, Eindhoven based Dutch Designers Bart Hess, Rombout Frieling lab and Studio Harm Rensink believe that we should make more use of the potential of the human body and its capacities. They dreamt of a crosspollination between their rather different disciplines, ranging from film making to the design of textiles, products and buildings. Over the last five years, they developed a radical new building to bring their studios under one roof: The Body Building... Rombout Frieling makes matter move man. As award winning designer and engineer, he tackles complex problems of..