10:30 rC8 MulTiMaTerial MiCrohoMes

Students: Praful Pradeep, En Yang, lanxin Yang

Design: Kostas Grigoriadis

Technical: Samuel Esses, Alvaro Lopez Rodriguez

Theory: Ilaria di Carlo

The project aims to revive dead pocket spaces in London. The design process consists of three stages, i.e., material research, micro-home design and robotic additive manufacturing. Regarding the first one, the team explored multi-materiality by synthesizing man-made and organic compounds obtained from landfill sites outside London. The resulting bio-compounds of discarded crustacean animal shells fused with discarded plastics were robotically extruded to generate adaptive micro-home designs. These were inserted in unused pocket spaces across London, in an effort to alleviate the current housing shortage. Post-use, the micro-home materials could be shredded down, and converted into filament for 3D printing new objects and spaces.