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👩🏻‍💻 Architecture Platform | Awards
✨ Visual material sourcing reimagined
👇🏻 Submissions open March Autumn Awards!

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What if finding sustainable materials was as easy as watching your favorite series? 🎬

This is how MARCH began.

When Marie, an architect who experienced firsthand how hard it was to build sustainably, decided to rethink how materials are sourced.

After years of spending countless hours searching for responsible, beautiful, and affordable materials, she wanted to make it easier for every architect to do the same.

That idea became MARCH, a platform built to connect architects, materials, and makers, and to make sustainable construction the new normal.

Together with you, we’re turning that vision into reality. 💚

And stay tuned, we’ll soon be launching the full version of our platform. Exciting things are coming. ✨

Remember! Only 2 days left to vote for your favorite project on the MARCH platform.
👉 Vote now at www.marchmaterials.com

🗓 Public Voting closes tomorrow
🏆 People’s Choice Award - Oct 17
🏛 Jury Awards - Oct 24

MARCH founders: @roelsmmarie & @belenmb9

🎥 Huge thanks to @fraulein_architektin for helping us share this chapter of our journey. by @marchmaterials

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a year ago

This is your sign to join the MARCH Awards 2026.

Did you receive our invitation?

A call for built projects in Europe and the UK using circular, bio-based and local materials.

We prepared every letter by hand and this one arrives on your screen.

‼️Last call: submissions close tonight at midnight.

Start your project now and complete the details until October 30. It takes less than 10 minutes.

→ app.marchmaterials.com

Designed together with @ottanmaterials and printed on their circular materials made from repurposed pistachio shells and egg shells. by @marchmaterials

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Two days left. Late entry for the MARCH Autumn Awards 2026 closes on 15 October. ⏳

We’re looking for built projects in Europe and the UK, completed 2000-2026, that work with bio-based, circular or local materials. A considered mix with conventional materials also counts.

💰 €4,000 in jury prizes across Large, Medium and Small categories.

🗳️ People’s Choice Award, voted by the community.

👥 Reviewed by architects and material experts, including @lxsy.architektur, @husosarquitecturas, @barrault.pressacco @accoyawood, @magoxx_board, @graphenstone, @finch_buildings, Actiform & more.

Late entry: €49
Submit before 15 October

→ app.marchmaterials.com

With the support of: @accoyawood, @clayworksclayplasters, @zumtobel_light, @magoxx_board, @hanfstein.eu, @enkeiofficial, @ottanmaterials

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Project images:

- Veldhuis by @lmnl_office, photo by Loes van Duijvendijk and Paul Swagerman
- House of the Seasons by @new_architekten, photography by Thilo Rohländer
- House in Ovronnaz by @dare_architectes, photography by Colla Images
- Closing Loops by @aaltouniversity, Johanna Saarela, Markus Saarela, Havu Järvelä, Antti Lehto, photography by Mika Huisman (Decopic) by @marchmaterials

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Last 4 days to submit your project to the MARCH Autumn Awards!

🎙️Marie, co-founder & CEO of MARCH, on why the Awards are more than a competition: your project becomes part of an ecosystem.

She also shares the most stressful moment of a past edition, what makes this year’s jury special, and what the Awards mean to her.

And a Dutch word worth learning: “Geitenwollensokken” literally means “goat wool socks”, the playful Dutch nickname for the eco-conscious type.

Late Entry closes next week, October 15.

Have you already submitted your project?
→ app.marchmaterials.com by @marchmaterials

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5 days ago

🌿 We’re delighted to share that our founder, Ayşe Yılmaz, will be joining the jury for the MARCH Autumn Awards 2026.

This year’s awards bring together projects exploring bio-based, low-carbon, and circular materials. We’re looking forward to discovering the people, ideas, and approaches behind the submissions, alongside a diverse jury of architects, designers, researchers, and material innovators from across the industry.

Submissions are open until 15 October. We look forward to seeing your work! 🌿

#MARCHmaterials #MARCHAutumnAwards2026 #OttanMaterials #CircularDesign by @marchmaterials

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST.

Here’s the final group of jury members bringing their experience, curiosity and different perspectives to the MARCH Autumn Awards 2026. →

ROCÍO PINA ISLA

Architect & Partner, ENORME Studio | Spain

@rociopinaisla co-founded @enormestudio and teaches at @iebusiness and @ied__madrid. Her work explores architecture as a tool for activating communities, generating debate and opening up new ways of inhabiting.

What she brings: a perspective on architecture as a platform for participation, transformation and new possibilities.

MARGIT SICHROVSKY

Architect & Partner, LXSY Architekten | Germany

Margit Sichrovsky is a professor of climate-responsible and resource-efficient architecture and co-founder of @lxsy.architektur, a Berlin practice focused on circular design.

What she brings: expertise in circular planning and building, connecting the social and ecological dimensions of sustainability.

Credits: BMWSB / Christina Czybik

CHRISSIE MUHR

Architect & Director, Experimental Foundation | Germany

@chrissiemuhr is Co-Managing and Artistic Director of the @experimentalfoundation, where she leads its fellowship and public programme focused on experimental approaches to sustainable architecture.

What she brings: expertise across architecture, research, exhibitions and publishing, with a particular focus on reuse, material culture and regenerative design.

Image Credits: Tom Ziora

THIBAUT BARRAULT

Architect & Director, Barrault Pressacco | France

@thibaut_barrault co-founded @barrault.pressacco Pressacco in Paris, where architectural practice and research come together around construction, materiality, climate and forms of inhabitation.

What he brings: a research-driven architectural perspective on materials, construction and the relationship between buildings, climate and how we live.

Credits: CGJerusalmI

AYŞE YILMAZ

Founder & CEO, OTTAN | UK

Inspired by nature, Ayşe Yılmaz founded @ottanmaterials to transform undervalued resources into innovative materials for products, furniture and interiors.

What she brings: over a decade of experience taking sustainable material innovation from R&D to commercialisation, backed by two patents in th by @marchmaterials

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MARCH Editorial | No. 5 bio-ecological renovation

The renovation of this late-19th-century townhouse in Antwerp was approached from a bio-ecological and circular perspective, retaining as much of the existing structure as possible while introducing natural, vapour-permeable materials throughout.

The townhouse’s historic character remains very present. High ceilings, mouldings, stained-glass windows, fireplaces and original wooden floors sit alongside new interventions that quietly bring the building into the present.

Inside, the layout was completely rethought to create three open-plan apartments. The rear was partially rebuilt, the roof raised to make space for terraces and natural light, and the circulation reorganised around the existing staircase and architectural details.

The material approach is what really caught our attention.

Wood fibre insulation and lime plaster on the exterior. Cellulose flakes in the roof. Lime-hemp and wood-wool in floors and walls. Restored timber floors, dry screeds with mineral granulates, gypsum fibreboards and linoleum complete the interior palette.

A renovation that uses natural materials not as an aesthetic statement, but as part of the building’s structure, comfort and indoor climate.

What we like about this project is how little it tries to separate the old from the new. Instead, different periods, materials and architectural details are allowed to form one coherent whole.

Project info
📍 Antwerp, Belgium
🏠 302 m²
♻️ Adaptive reuse
📐 @polygoonarchitectuur
📸 @jessyvanderwerff

Find all material info on app.marchmaterials.com
Pavawall | Pavatex
Akurit | Siefert
Cellulose IQ3 | @isoproc
CaNaDry | EXIE
Estrich | @fermacelldeutschland
Laminated Veneer Lumber - LVL | Steico
Isolair | Pavatex
Pavaflex | Pavatex
Unilit | Unilit
Marmoleum flooring | @forboflooringsystems

MARCH Editorial
A selection of projects, innovative materials and ideas that caught our attention and deserve a little more time on your feed.

Do you have a project with conscious and innovative materials the industry should see?

📬 Share your work via app.marchmaterials.com by @marchmaterials

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We’re delighted that our Commercial Director, Ben Sturges, will be joining the jury for the @marchmaterials Autumn Awards 2026.

This year’s awards bring together projects exploring bio-based, low-carbon and circular materials, celebrating innovative ideas and new approaches to materiality.

Ben is looking forward to bringing a paint and coatings perspective to the judging panel and contributing to the conversation around more sustainable material choices.

Submissions are open until 15 October. by @marchmaterials

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10 days left to submit your project to the MARCH Autumn Awards 2026. ⏳

Regular entry has closed, and late entry is now ope until October 15.

We’re looking for built projects across Europe and the UK that work with bio-based, circular or local materials.

A mix of sustainable and conventional materials is also welcome. We support progress over perfection.

💰 4,000€ in prizes across three categories: Large, Medium and Small

🗳️ People’s Choice Award, voted by the community

👥 A jury of architects and material experts, including César Vivas from @vivasarquitectos, Jonas Lencer from @drmm_architects, Rosa Hanhausen from @bauhaus_earth, Adam Weismann from @clayworksclayplasters, Jonathan Tuckey from @tuckeydesignstudio, Aziza Chaouni from @azizachaouniprojects, Werner Schönthaler from @hanfstein.eu & @sappa_panels, and more.

Every shortlisted project gets lifelong exposure on the MARCH platform.

49€ Late Entry | Competition ends October 15.

Submit before next week.
→ app.marchmaterials.com

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Project images:
1. Rammed Earth House by Tuckey Design Studio
Photography Jim Stephenson @clickclickjim
2. Dijkmagazijn Scharwoude by Common Practice
Photography Crispijn van Sas @cvansas by @marchmaterials

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I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the jury for the MARCH Autumn Awards 2026.
This year’s awards bring together projects exploring bio-based, low-carbon and circular materials and I’m looking forward to discovering the people, ideas and approaches behind them.

I’m especially excited to be part of a jury bringing together such a diverse group of architects, designers, researchers and material innovators from across the industry.

Submissions are open until October 15. I look forw ard to seeing your work! taken in Hanfstein by @marchmaterials

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There’s no single way to think about better building.

That’s why we’ve brought together people working across architecture, materials, research, manufacturing and design.

Meet the next eight voices of the MARCH Autumn Awards 2026 joining the conversation. →

DAVID BASULTO

Strategic Advisor & Founder, @archdaily | Germany

Founder of ArchDaily, @dbasulto built one of the world’s most visited architecture platforms. Today, he works across architecture, media and technology as an advisor, investor, editor and speaker.

What he brings: a global perspective on architecture, media, technology and the ideas shaping the profession.

Image Credits: OMNIRES

RAPHAEL PETRI

Vice President, @zumtobel_light | Austria

Raphael Petri works with architects, designers and innovators to develop lighting solutions that enhance architecture and human experience.

What he brings: a perspective on how technology, sustainability and design can come together to improve the built environment.

TINA GREGORIČ

Architect & Founding Director, @dekleva.gregoric.architects | Slovenia

Architect, professor and researcher, Tina Gregorič connects architectural practice with research into social and climate challenges.

What she brings: expertise in material and circular design strategies, social interaction and architecture’s role in responding to contemporary challenges.

Image Credits: Tadej Znidarcic

TOBIAS ØHRSTRØM

Architect & Co-founder, @sould.dk | Denmark

An architect and trained engineer, @tobiasohrstrom leads R&D, design and creative direction at Søuld, with a focus on sustainable natural materials, craftsmanship and design.

What he brings: a strong understanding of materiality, buildability and how natural materials can meet high performance and design standards.

Image Credits: Andreas Pless

PETRA VAN VEELEN

Architect & Business Developer, @finch_buildings | Netherlands

Architect and product developer, Petra van Veelen combines design, sustainability and business with experience across the full development and construction process.

What she brings: expertise in biobased materials, timber construction and modular building as a scalable approach to healthier, more sustainable by @marchmaterials

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MARCH Editorial | No. 4 Grande Panorama

In Drøbak, Norway, a former nursing home from 1968 was transformed into 28 apartments through a thoughtful approach to adaptive reuse, circular design and material recovery.

The starting point was a strong structuralist concrete and brick building, with pronounced horizontal and vertical axes. Rather than covering this up, @borhavenarkitekter focused on bringing the original structure back into focus, removing later additions that had slowly obscured it.

The original concrete and brick façades were preserved. Bricks from demolished parts were cleaned and reused, while concrete elements were even “transplanted” inside the building to repair previous renovations.

And then there’s the teak windows.

They no longer worked with the new floor heights, but instead of being discarded, they found a second life in a floating sauna by @actstudio.eu, becoming part of Drøbak’s growing sauna culture.

A new wooden volume with seven apartments was added at the rear, creating a softer transition towards the surrounding neighbourhood. Outside, ramps and technical installations were removed to make space for greener areas, while new balconies and terraces open towards the Oslo Fjord.

What stayed with us is the way Grande Panorama treats an existing building not as something to work around, but as a resource.

Its structure, materials, proportions and even its windows all became part of the next chapter.

Project info
📍 Drøbak, Norway
🏠 3,500 m²
♻️ Adaptive reuse
📐 @borhavenarkitekter
🔨 Team @Bygg og Anlegg AS | Contractor
🛠️ @actstudio.eu & @ostrelinjearkitekter og Landskap AS | Sub Contractors
📸 @alexandra.gjerlaugsen

Materials
@accoyawood | @forrevindu
Northern Light Oak | @pergoflooring
dassoCTECH bamboo | Dasso

MARCH Editorial
A selection of projects, innovative materials and ideas that caught our attention and deserve a little more time on your feed.

Have a project with conscious and innovative materials use you think the industry should see?

📬 Submit your work via app.marchmaterials.com by @marchmaterials

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