{"id":67968,"date":"2019-10-02T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T08:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/overskudsmaterialer-faar-nyt-liv-i-new-neighbour\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:41:33","slug":"overskudsmaterialer-faar-nyt-liv-i-new-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/en\/overskudsmaterialer-faar-nyt-liv-i-new-neighbour\/","title":{"rendered":"Surplus materials given new life in New Neighbour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surplus materials given new life in New Neighbour<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

Aarhus School of Architecture has teamed up with the organization Bank Of Materials, in the launch of a material bank of surplus materials from four Danish manufacturing companies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

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Every day surplus materials are discarded because they do not fit into standardised production methods. However, these materials are often of high quality and have a nature and a potential that is worth exploring. This is why Aarhus School of Architecture, working together with Kvadrat, S\u00f8rensen L\u00e6der, ZURFACE and Dinesen, has launched Bank of Materials. An initiative that gives materials a new lease of life.<\/p>\n

Bank of Materials collects surplus materials from the four companies and makes them available to people who wish to turn the materials into creative projects. Bank of Materials is thus a bank where the value is social, and materials are the currency. In this way, knowledge and inspiration are exchanged. This benefits the creative processes and exciting stories that come into being when you work with the materials.<\/p>\n

‘Our mission is to explore the potential of these surplus materials, each of which contains its own unique qualities and stories. The things that cause the materials to be sorted out in standardised production processes are the things we see opportunities in – it is the beauty of the imperfect. You can see BOM as a kind of exploratorium for materials and an incubator for new ideas and connections’, explains Lennart Ellegaard, \u2018Bank Manager\u2019, Bank of Materials.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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