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Others design ecosystems. <strong>Joost Bakker<\/strong> belongs to the latter. A Dutch-born Australia-based designer, Bakker has been challenging architectural conventions for over 25 years with a virtuous obsession: eliminating the very concept of waste. In 2012, he founded Silo, Australia\u2019s first zero-waste restaurant. In 2021, he built Future Food System, a self-sufficient home in the heart of Melbourne capable of producing food and energy while managing its own waste in a closed-loop system.<\/p>\n<p>Bakker builds with compressed straw and converts organic waste into biogas, but when it came to protecting his buildings from the elements, he found in <strong>cork<\/strong> the answer he had been looking for.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Beyond <em>greenwashing<\/em>: a material that exceeds expectations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Anyone working in sustainability develops a certain level of skepticism, and Bakker is no exception. Every time he encounters a new material, he digs deep to verify that its promises match reality.<\/p>\n<p>With cork, the opposite happened. By visiting the cork oak forests and observing the entire production cycle\u2014from stripping the bark from the oak trees to transforming by-products into construction materials\u2014he encountered <strong>a supply chain that exceeded expectations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What struck him most was the dimension of time: century-old trees bearing the marks of thirty successive harvests, with incisions left by generations of harvesters\u2014some more than a hundred years old. Long before the <strong>circular economy<\/strong> became a fashionable concept, it was already everyday practice in the Mediterranean cork forests.<\/p>\n<h3>Breathing materials: the lesson of bark<\/h3>\n<p>The problem with contemporary construction, according to Bakker, is its obsession with sealing. Over the past fifty years, <strong>buildings have been wrapped in rigid surfaces that absorb neither moisture nor sound<\/strong>, resulting in cave-like environments: stale air, poor acoustics, and constant mechanical climate control.<\/p>\n<p>His vision is different. All the <strong>materials<\/strong> he uses in his projects are <strong>natural<\/strong>, <strong>porous<\/strong>, <strong>breathable<\/strong>, <strong>never sealed<\/strong>\u2014and cork is the perfect example. A cladding that replicates what tree bark does naturally: protecting, insulating, and resisting fire while continuing to breathe.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur homes need to be like trees,\u201d <\/em>Bakker explains. It\u2019s not a metaphor\u2014it\u2019s a design principle.<\/p>\n<h3>Three thousand years of building wisdom<\/h3>\n<p>In Sardinia, Bakker visited a three-thousand-year-old <strong>Nuragic structure<\/strong>: no air-conditioning systems, yet the temperature was stable and the air circulated naturally. Ancient spaces that make people feel at ease\u2014more so than many modern buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The question that follows is simple: why did we stop designing this way? Three thousand years ago, spaces were <strong>warm in winter and cool in summer without consuming energy<\/strong>, while today we rely on constant electricity to achieve poorer results.<\/p>\n<p>For Bakker, true innovation does not mean ignoring the past, but integrating it. There is a wealth of accumulated wisdom, built up over generations, that we have set aside\u2014and the challenge is to reclaim it and combine it with contemporary technologies.<\/p>\n<h3>Building to regenerate<\/h3>\n<p>Bakker\u2019s ambition goes beyond reducing impact: he wants to design <strong>buildings that actively improve the environment\u2014structures resilient<\/strong> to fire, storms, and the passage of time.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a <strong>health<\/strong> issue. According to the United Nations, up to one hundred thousand people die every year from indoor air pollution, and the air we breathe affects our bodies more quickly than food. Yet we obsess over organic diets while completely ignoring the materials that surround us.<\/p>\n<p>Bakker envisions an <strong>organic certification for homes<\/strong>, based on toxin-free materials, without chemical glues or flame retardants. <em>\u201cI truly believe architecture can save us\u201d,<\/em> he says. 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