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Our mission is to accelerate the transition toward a circular built environment — where waste becomes a resource, and materials are designed with their next life in mind.
We don't start by choosing a material — we start by understanding what is already available: in a building, a construction site or a territory.
Mapping waste streams, existing buildings and local resources to see what's already there.
Treating existing buildings and demolition waste as material banks, not disposal problems.
Turning research into physical material samples, components and tested formulations.
Translating circular materials into real, buildable architectural applications.
What if waste were not an endpoint?
We're living through three crises that are supposed to be separate, but aren't: a climate crisis that demands new materials, a housing crisis that demands we keep building, and a resource crisis where what we extract is running out.
Construction sits at the centre of all three. Every demolition site is a quarry we've already paid to extract — and yet we throw it away. What's missing isn't ambition. It's a way to turn yesterday's buildings into tomorrow's materials.
That's where ReMateria steps in. We take construction and demolition waste — concrete, brick, stone — and reintroduce it into an entirely new material cycle. Not downcycled into filler, but rebuilt into a system.
We process that waste into a powder, then into a geopolymer material — essentially a liquid — that can be shaped freely. The real breakthrough: we chemically foam it, creating air pockets that make it lighter, and better insulating, thermally and acoustically, than the material it came from.
The material sets at room temperature — no firing, no kiln. The result is carbon-neutral by design. This isn't theoretical: we've already built and tested working prototypes.
A concrete wall doesn't have to come back as a wall — it can become flooring, a finish. That's only possible because ReMateria takes a holistic approach, where material and design feed each other.
Architects get the freedom to shape the material around a space, instead of picking one off a shelf. Cities get to meet housing demand without extracting more from the ground.
A closer look at the materials we develop.
What makes our circular materials work.
Working across three connected fields.
Show All →Construction is one of the world's largest sources of waste — and one of its greatest untapped opportunities.
Most construction still follows a linear path: extract, build, demolish, discard. That path is reaching its limits. ReMateria exists to interrupt it — treating waste streams, existing buildings and local territories as sources of new material possibility, not problems to be managed. This is where circular economy stops being a policy goal and becomes something you can actually build with.
Global goals our work contributes to.