Accordingly, I would like to start with a healthy material that impressed me because I also had the nice situation of being able to see how the material grows and is cultivated in Portugal. In this case, the cork oak. In the end, it is a renewable product, not just the tree trunk as such, but in this case actually the bark, which can be peeled off regularly. Which we mainly know when used as bottle corks.

If a material manages to be approved and function in direct contact with our food, then you can assume that it is a thoroughly healthy material. If you're really hungry, I don't think it would fill you up. Even now, I would have relatively few concerns about eating this cork in an emergency. I don't think I would get sick here.

Now the cork may not necessarily be the perfect building material, but where it then becomes a building material, when you look at yourself, is made from the harvested cork bark, imagine that you remove the individual corks from here and this leftover piece remains standing. This residual piece is still a valuable material that is further processed, grated into small pieces and can then be used to produce technical bark again under pressure and temperature.

You certainly know the look of this fine-grained cork material, which has the nice, healthy feature that the new bond made of this shredded bark material here is achieved purely via the lignin contained in the bark. No additional adhesive is required here to create this cohesion. And then with the combination, therefore top ten materials, the process from grown recycling to design appearance, in which the designer succeeded in giving the cork material a completely new look. It deserves a top ten place for me for today's course.