The building industry is facing a major raw material crisis (sand, water). MARETECH proposes to revalue local material from French Atlantic coast in architectural applications. Indeed, those available sedimentary materials are natural and reach the seashore through the tides. However, because of human activities, those matters are collected and discharged offshore. With MARETECH, we value a new local and sustainable material that we shape through 3D printing : a zero waste process in order to rationalize the available quantity of raw matter.
Developed in the frame of Worth Project, MARETECH will divulgate its first prototypes in March 2021: architectural elements for contemporary mashrabiyya. In the future, we aim to develop building elements for external application but also to use MARETECH material with WASP 3D Printers in order to shape one building in continuous printing. Thus, we define a local and sustainable vision of architecture by merging nature and technology.