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acadia23_v2_208 |
| authors |
Scott, Jane; Bridgens, Ben; Kaiser, Romy; Ozkan, Dilan; Agraviador, Armand |
| year |
2023 |
| title |
The Living Room: Knitting as a Strategy to Redefine the Architectural Possibilities of Mycelium Biofabrication in the Built Environment |
| source |
ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 2: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9891764-0-3]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 208-219. |
| summary |
The Living Room is a mycelium-knit biohybrid architecture that consists of an exposed knitted formwork on the interior and a smooth mycelium plaster on the exterior, creating a monolithic 4-m-diameter, freestanding structure. The aim of The Living Room is to develop a complex architectural form with doubly-curved surfaces; exploiting the unique proper- ties of a composite system that brings together flexible, shaped, 3D knitted formwork, with mycocrete, a bespoke mycelium paste formulated for use with textile scaffolds. Furthermore, The Living Room seeks to demonstrate how bio-textile fabrication can make use of waste materials and by-products from local industries to grow large-scale struc- tures with minimal environmental impact. To achieve these goals, an iterative process was required which integrated physical making at small and large scale, digital modeling, structural analysis, biomaterial experimentation, and knit specification. The design and fabrication process enabled a conceptual design, developed through physical knit prototyping, to be scaled up via digital modeling, to create a large-scale installation with the flexibility to modify the idealized model geometry on site during fabrication. The process is critically examined, and opportunities to improve the form finding and simulation of the knit formwork canopy are identified as key areas for further development. |
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ACADIA |
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