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acadia23_v1_100 |
| authors |
Donahue, Katie; Hoerath, Katharina |
| year |
2023 |
| title |
The Pulp Projects: Fiber Re-Fabrication |
| source |
ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 1: Projects Catalog of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 100-109. |
| summary |
The Pulp Projects is a body of design research, material experimentation, and community art exhibition that questions waste cycles and overlooked material opportunities of discarded cellulose products. The objectives: 1. Intervene in post-consumer waste cycles, 2. Provoke community interaction and facilitate education on sustainable materials, and 3. Explore unexpected material opportunities through new approaches to digital technique. Three projects in this ongoing study are highlighted in order to propose new techniques in fiber-material re-fabrication. After evaluating the challenges of handwork, laser cutting, and water jet, two trajectories prove promising: Extrusion 3D printing of pulp and 5-axis Computer Numerical Control (CNC) milling of pulp. When paired with the appropriate fiber and slurry mixes, this offers improved scalability, economy, durability, structure, texture, color and form. This project proposes that these digital tooling techniques be deployed in conjunction with hand techniques - consider for texture or color - in order to index the imprint of human use on these reincarnated materials, and embolden their storytelling for a wide audience. |
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ACADIA |
| type |
project |
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