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Table 3 - Quantities percentage of structure weight
Data collected in table 4 reveals a big adoption in weight of artificial material, a strange data if
related to a contest where the use of natural material was encouraged all the ways.

Table 4 - Natural materials in structure weight
A similar analysis was carried out for cladding materials, in this case many more materials have
been adopted, but the most used is wood. In fact wood is a light material with exceptional thermal and acoustic properties of insulation. Also in this case other interesting solutions are reported, like bamboo and biodynamic concrete. Bamboo in particular is a material that requires little
processing and can easily be mounted to make a cover that makes the day-light pass.

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