The Weight of What We Build

An immersive installation where materials speak, making the weight of construction tangible and inspiring new futures of design.

Step into The Weight of What We Build: a modular installation framed like scaffolding and filled with real materials. Sounds, smells, and textures reveal what architecture hides, unfolding in three sensory zones that invite reflection on how we build.
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Living Environment
Speculative & Social Design
Sustainability
B4
Ketelhuisplein
Ketelhuisplein
5617 AE

Entrance free

Free access

Hosted by

LX Design Studio

Opening hours

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Tactile
Tactile
Child Friendly
Accessible for children
Toilets Toilets available
Wheelchair Friendly Partially wheelchair accessible
Wheelchair Friendly Toilet Wheelchair friendly toilet available

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Zone 1: Burden

Every building carries a weight that is rarely visible. This first zone confronts hidden costs of construction such as embodied carbon, demolition waste, and toxicity. Familiar materials are presented not as neutral samples but as sensory encounters with sharp textures, chemical smells, and unsettling soundscapes. Curtains mark thresholds and shift atmospheres. Burden makes invisible impacts tangible and brings the weight of our built environment into awareness.

Zone 2: Reflection

The atmosphere shifts into stillness. Natural and biobased materials soften the space with earthy smells, muted light, and acoustic calm. This zone offers a pause to reflect on the relationship between people and the built environment. It contrasts with the heaviness of the previous zone and creates an environment for contemplation. The design hints at traditions of craft and care, encouraging awareness of how design decisions shape culture, environment, and collective well-being.

Zone 3: Regeneration

The final zone opens toward renewal and possibility. Biobased and circular materials such as fungal composites, plant-based plastics, and recycled elements invite touch, scent, taste, and light. These materials suggest an architecture that regenerates rather than depletes. The atmosphere becomes lighter and more open, turning thresholds into invitations. A Material Passport records impressions from across the installation, while QR codes extend the experience with stories and ecological data. It is a reminder that building differently is possible and hopeful.

Zone 2 Reflection: pause and awareness
Zone 2 Reflection: pause and awareness
Rendering © LX Design Studio 2025
Zone 3 Regenerate: circular futures
Zone 3 Regenerate: circular futures
Rendering © LX Design Studio 2025

Hosted by LX Design Studio

LX Design Studio works at the intersection of design, digitalization, visualization, and sustainability. Based in Austria, we create architectural models and building drawings, enriched with AI staging, floor plan digitization, and spatial optimization. Through sustainability awareness and material research, we reveal the hidden footprint of construction and turn complex data into experiences that help people understand, communicate, and reimagine the spaces we inhabit.

Colofon

Founder & Designer
Lobna Elgheriani
Project Manager
Marius Müller
Production Team
Sevval Kayhan

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