Visit · Building & making
In the end it has to go through your hands.
On the building site and in the workshop it becomes clear whether a material is truly an alternative: available, workable and reliable enough to guarantee.
Choose your field
2 routes within building & making.
You have to process and guarantee it in the end. Each route has its own page with the materials, themes, programme elements and reasons to come.
What you'll find there
Materials you can see, feel and question.
- A curated exhibition floor with materials and products for the built environment.
- An independent materials exhibition with samples you can see and feel yourself.
- A substantive programme on application, scaling, design, engineering, supply chains and regulation.
- Young Talents asking new questions about material, production and restoration.
- Producers, designers, clients, advisers and builders you can speak to directly.
- Projects and applications that show what is already possible.
Come with a concrete question.
MaterialDistrict 2027 brings together the people, materials and knowledge needed to make more sustainable building actually happen.