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Top Emerging Building Materials for 2025: Redefining Sustainable Construction

Top Emerging Building Materials for 2025: Redefining Sustainable Construction

Read today’s standout story redefining design at Parametric Architecture!

Yagmur Baydır
June 07, 2025

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Top Emerging Building Materials for 2025: Redefining Sustainable Construction

Building the cities of tomorrow with emerging building materials creates structures that are resilient, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. Our dynamic world is constantly evolving, and so are the traditional and modern materials used to build it. Learning from the past, we simply relied on stone, wood, and concrete that shaped our streets and formed structured skylines.

However, today we face immense climatic issues, urban growth, and inconsiderate strategies of building that damage the environment, resulting in a paradigm shift to a new era of innovation that is smart, adaptive, and grows with us. In this research blog, let’s explore a range of emerging building materials for 2025 that are strong, durable, and ingenious, helping to craft modern structures.

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1. Hempcrete

Twine House by Antony Gibbon. Image is Courtesy of Antony Gibbon Designs

2. Mycelium-Based Composites

The Growing Pavilion © Eric Malender, Dutch Design Week and Floriade Expo

3. Self-Healing Concrete

The ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion © Roland Halbe, ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart

4. Transparent Wood

Facade of Parking Garage in Zutphen made out of Translucent Wood

5. Recycled Plastic Bricks

A freestanding wall © Precious Plastic

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6. Bio-luminescent wood-inspired materials

Wood that glows in the dark using ringless honey fungus. Image courtesy of the researchers and Empa

7. Wire Mesh Glass

8. Hot-melted natural stone

9. 3D-Printed elements

10. Ferrock

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