The About Futures Melbourne Design Week 2026 hitlist
With thirty-plus events on bio-materials, repair and circularity, this year’s design week highlights that sustainability concepts have beyond the fringe.
3RT Engineered Timber
3RT Engineered Timber
3RT utilises the plentiful juvenile plantation resources, which make up 45 per cent of the world’s logged wood and encompass a variety of species. Typically, due to their lower quality, these young trees are relegated to being processed into low-value wood chips.
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The Apple House is an imaginative test of natural materials
A community building with heart, The Apple House features hemp, lime plaster, spruce glulam and an earthen floor – all with a respectful outlook to the surrounding orchard.
La Crêta Farmhouse shows us the art of taking away
The most profound thing Bard Yersin did to this 18th-century Fribourg farmhouse was strip away layers from an earlier renovation. La Crêta is an adaptive reuse project that proves sustainable design’s most powerful tool is restraint.
