A breakroom for medical staff informed by Japanese tea rooms and playful tents made from waste materials are among six designs shortlisted for Dezeen and Forbo Flooring's Marmoleum Design Challenge.
The shortlist for the contest, which challenged participants to create an interior space that promotes wellbeing using Forbo Flooring's Marmoleum material, was chosen from entries submitted from 61 countries around the world.
Marmoleum is a linoleum flooring product by Forbo Flooring that is crafted from natural raw materials, including linseed oil extracted from flax plant seeds, wood flour, limestone, pine resin and jute plant fibres.
As a result, it is a climate-positive biobased material negating the need for offsetting, meaning that the carbon dioxide absorbed by the materials used to make the product is greater than the carbon dioxide emitted by manufacturing it.
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Using the material, entrants were tasked with designing a space for relaxation and rejuvenation to be installed in interior environments such as hospitals, schools or offices ? anywhere you can play, learn, work or heal.
The finalists were determined by an expert panel comprising interior designer Ilse Crawford, HOK senior interior designer Christine Vandover, Studiopepe co-founder Chiara Di Pinto, Dezeen editorial director Max Fraser and Forbo Flooring linoleum senior designer Tamar Gaylord.
A total...