| id |
ecaadesigradi2019_619 |
| authors |
Beyer, Bastian, Suárez, Daniel and Palz, Norbert |
| year |
2019 |
| title |
Microbiologically Activated Knitted Composites - Reimagining a column for the 21st century |
| source |
Sousa, JP, Xavier, JP and Castro Henriques, G (eds.), Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution - Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Volume 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 541-552 |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.2.541
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| summary |
A column is an archetypal constituent of architecture which historically underwent constant reiteration in accordance with the prevalent architectural style, material culture or technical and structural possibilities. The project reimagined this architectural element through harnessing the synergies of digital design, textile logic, and contemporary biotechnology. Textile materiality and aesthetic are deeply rooted in architectural history as a soft and ephemeral antipode to rigid building materials. An investigation in historic mechanical hand-knitting techniques allowed to extract their underlying structural and geometric logic to develop a structural optimisation pipeline with a graded yarn as a base material and a geometric optimization based on local distribution of knitting patterns. Bacterially driven biocalcification was applied to transform the soft textile structure into a rigid material. Hereby an active textile microbiome was established through colonizing of the yarn with the bacterium S. pasteurii which successively precipitated calcite on microscale within the textile substrate hence ultimately influencing the global structural behaviour of the column. |
| keywords |
textile microbiome; material customization; knitting; yarn augmentation |
| series |
eCAADeSIGraDi |
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