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Bioplastic Tectonic
Project details
Programme
Research Cluster
RC7
The project introduced a paradigm shift towards a programmable material-driven fabrication method. Internal and external spatial variables provide a morphological diversity of form-shaping and result in a more detailed spatial pattern, where the ratio and ingredient of bioplastic are cor-responding to each component of the sys-tem.
The project introduces a renewable mate-rial – bioplastic - by introducing a designed formwork with this unique production process, we are able to produce bioplastic panels that can form into different uses. The panel is carefully designed with struc-tural analysis and climate analysis, show-ing our understanding and research for a different performance of the material.
Students
01
Multimateriality
At the material level, starch-based biopolymers offer several advantages for an architecture within this agenda.
Biodigital Inheritation
Biodigital Inheritation
Methodology of style transfer GAN (Generative adversarial networks) translates a Biomechanical inhabitation of natural structure and content into a detailed spatial pattern of bioplastics.
Ingredients Tests
Ingredients Tests
The material research starts from testing out various ingredients from different biomass than moving to the ratio of acid and glycerine.
02
Mass Customised Production
Bioplastic typologies pursue a contemporary development of the prototype.
Customised Assembled Production
From the single model that demold from the formwork, the assembled system will then be introduced to proceed into production.
03
Embryonic Prototype
This is in part related to the challenges of working at the larger scale with non-conventional materials which are neither inert nor static.
Component Assemble
Component Assemble
The basic geometries are stacked one by one in all three different ways of connection.
Adaptable Component
Adaptable Component
The spacefilling logic starts with a single geometry with eleven vertices and only one plane of symmetry.
04
Building Proposal
In this manner, the approach is conceptually and typologically resource efficient, sensitive to the metabolism of material re-sources.
Environmental Adaptation
Environmental Adaptation
It is also in part limited the contemporary conception of the prototype as a full-scale representation of a fixed typology with no longitudinal considera-tion of material agency.
Secondary Agencies
These changes, driven by factors including hydration levels, decay, growth of secondary agencies, aging, and failure can then be remapped, then removed, re-formed, or re-assembled.
Bio-spatial Reconfigurations
Through different segmentation of the same formwork template, arrange-ment and combination are purposed under spatial requirements.
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