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Studio Hendrikx is exploring a living future. What if our everyday products are alive? We live in a world in which a dead tree has more value than a living tree. Let's change that.

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Studio Hendrikx is exploring a living future. What if our everyday products are alive? We live in a world in which a dead tree has more value than a living tree. Let's change that. We strive for a fundamental new relationship with the natural world.

Vision

Vision

From Dead Materials
To Living Organisms.

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News

We degrade highly intelligent organisms into 'stupid' materials. What if we no longer work with dead materials, but with living organisms? Imagine breathing homes, living coffins and self-healing T-shirts.

Vision

Vision

What if our every day products are alive?

Studio Hendrikx strives to restore the parasitic relationship between humanity and its environment by expanding the horizon of human imagination by exploring living materials.

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Projects

Projects

Living Bin.

Sea anemones play a vital role as recyclers in marine ecosystems. Even in our ‘gray’ North Sea, the beautiful Beadlet Anemone can be found.

The colorful
creatures of the grey
North Sea.

Living Roadblock.

While moss aims to grasp our attention, we have been ignoring its ecological value. We have built cities that exclude nature. But what if we empower nature?

Increasing
biodiversity in
the city

Living Couch.

Shedding light on the hidden power of nature in the Royal Palace of Soestdijk where one of the oldest organism empowers us to purify the air we all breath.

The lungs
of the Dutch
lakes.

Living Coffin.

How can we restore the parasitic relationship between man and nature? We see ourselves as waste, but what if you could become compost? And instead of polluting the environment, becoming a source for new life?

Turning
science-fiction
into reality:
Life after death.

Living Home.

Imagine a building that breathes, grows and is able to heal itself. A prototype of 'world's first living home' was presented during the Dutch Design Week 2020 and is now on display at the Verbeke Foundation in Antwerpen.

Feed your
home while
watching netflix.

The Motown Movement.

Why do 3 students buy a house in Detroit for $1000? To make sustainable housing accessible for everyone by combining research and education in a showcase for low-budget DIY technologies.

Homo Natura:
Truly becoming part
of the ecosystem.

Maldives Matter.

A window into the problems of the Maldives. The islands that are on the front-line of climate change and are fighting against large scale waste problems.

About

About

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BOB HENDRIKX

Bob Hendrikx is an inventor, architect and biodesigner. Working together with nature and a world in which our everyday objects come to life are important factors in his work. From a living coffin that turns people into plant food to growing a house. Bob was named Human of the Year 2020 by VICE Media.

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Contact.

Studio Hendrikx is a design studio led by Inventor, Architect & Biodesigner Bob Hendrikx. The team consists of designers, engineers and scientists who focus solely on collaborating with living organisms, hereby striving for a new fundamental relationship with the natural world.

Studio located in Delft, The Netherlands

General inquiries: contact@studiohendrikx.com
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