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Biopolymer printing and Radicant
Project
CITA
Participants
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Paul Nicholas, Martin Tamke, Ayoub Lharchi,Hasti Valipour Goudarzi, Carl Eppinger, Konrad Sonne,Tim Marvin Bruder
Collaborators
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Arianna Rech, PhD candidate DTU, Anders Egede Daugaard, Associate Professor DTU
Can biopolymer printing help us reconsider the way we build?
The pressures on the planetary boundaries challenge the impact of our practices and materials and draw attention to how they are part of larger socio-ecological cycles.
The biopolymer printing exhibit examines how waste stream materials from the food industry and agriculture can become new class of architectural building materials. In three projects we examine collagen glue as a base for cellulose-reinforced biopolymer panels in various aspects of design.
The three projects ask the following questions:
- If building materials follow a recipe logic, how can their tuning to available waste streams allow new kinds of valorisation?
- In efforts involving slurry-based materials, how can 3D printing become part of a circular design framework?
- If we accept new forms of material performance and strength ratios, how do practices of repair and maintenance change architectural ideation?
