Architectural Portfolio Dilara Özlü
Selected works 2016-2021
Dilara Özlü June 17th, 1996 Copenhagen, Denmark +45 52 78 57 84 dilara.ozlu@tedu.edu.tr
She is interested in sustainability in architecture and, her recent projects focus on circular design with the use of computational design tools.
EDUCATION
2022.01-Present
The New School, Parson School of Design
Healtier Materials and Sustainable Building
2021.08
Forenginen Maker Summer School Distributed Design
2019.09-2021.06
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, MA, Computation
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES
TED University, Department of Architecture Bachelors, Honor Student, Turkey
PUBLICATIONS
2021.10
EXPERIENCES
2021.07-Present
Production and Testing Assistant, Rokoko
2021.02-2021.06
Part-time Intern, Natural Material Studio
2020.09-2021.02
Part-time Intern, KHR Architecture
2020.05-2021.01
Freelance, Illustration maker
2018.08-2018.09 2018.06-2018.08
CEES 2021 Conference
Paper abstract publication & research presentation
WORKSHOPS
2019.11
DigitalFUTURE: Architectural Geometry and Habitat, lead by ZHCode
Robotic Profile Bending Industry, CITA collaborated workshop with Kvadrat Soft Cells
2019.10
Bridging the Gap, CITA
2019.09
Print Fast, Pile High, ZHCode
2019.09
Circular Materialities, CITA
Producing weekly post and monthly info-graphics for an AAC communication tool app.
Student Intern, Apollon Smintheion Excavation
Voluntary Internship. Digitalizing the hand-drawn archive.
Student Intern, Gökhan Aksoy Architects
Designing architectural catalogue and rearranging the archive of the office.
Student Intern, YDA Söğütözü Office and Residence Project
Member of Board of Directors, Architecture and Design Society of TEDU
Robotic fabrication, molding, CNC milling machine, 3D printing, scaning, computational design, material exploration, cellulose mixture, circularity in architecture, panel structure designing.
Model maker
2017.06-2017.09
2020.02
2020.06
Material experimenting and fabrication designing
Student Intern, Gökhan Aksoy Architects
Visual Editor, The VOID Mag
Helping the visual designers and writers to communicate with each other, arranging meetings and making monthly schedules, producing collages, editing visuals.
Active participant. Robotic fabrication, wire cutting, computational design, prefabric design, customization, aggregation.
Taking part and making the Smart Suits
2018.01-2018.02
Graphic Designer, PR of Student Council at TEDU
Visual production for social media accounts, hard-copy designs for events.
Arranged workshops and opening coctails.
Robotic fabrication, molding, CNC milling machine, 3D printing, scaning, computational design, material exploration, cellulose mixture, circularity in architecture, panel designing. Understanding the material behaviour, 3D clay printing, working through design led approaches and methods specific to 3D printing. Material making and grading and it’s connection to architectural behaviour, recycled glass, robotic printing process and workflow
Voluntary Internship. Taking measurements from CAD files.
SKILLS
Rhino, Grasshopper,AutoCAD, Sketchup, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Python, Water coloring, Hand drawing.
LANGUAGE
Turkish, native English, IELTS 6.5 overall score Danish, beginner level, UCplus Danish course
Make analysis of the construction process, take daily notes for the construction team, documentation.
AWARDS, ACHIVEMENTS
2016.9-2018.04
2015.9-2016.06
in Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014.09-2019.06
2017.09.2019.06
The Roof Coliving Meet-Up Speech: Circular Economy in Architecture
Circular economy in architecture, examples in product design, small scale and large scale accomodation design in Denmark
Content 1-6
Architecture of Reforestation Thesis Research, 2021 7-10
Lotus
Velux International Competition, 2020 11-14
Circular Materialities Workshop, 2019 15-20
On This Earth
Undergraduation Project, 2015
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Change Climate Change
Undergraduation Project, 2019 27-30
Factory District
Undergraduation Project, 2018 31-34
Nature, Garden, Process Exhibition, 2021 31-34
Starch Based Bioplastic
from a Space Divider to a Green House Graduate Project, 2019-2020
1 Architecture of Reforestation Thesis Research, 2021 Advisor: Paul Nicholas
The research presented in this portfolio explores new possibilities of fabrication methods with a living material mycelium. This emerging material has the potentials to be discovered in many fields as well as in architecture. However, very strict application technics used is a challenge for scaling up and geometry explorations. Also, mycelium not always been investigated fully to discover the architectural potentials during its growth since it is dried. Most of the recent applications found in the literature for mycelium is done by placing it inside mass-produced rectangular molds to be shaped and because mycelium is dried afterwards, the natural growth of mycelium in its environment is not analyzed. This research will focus on growing mycelium in custom handwoven molds. The weaved molds will be studied with different substrate recipes and thread types to understand the material response. Mycelium will be kept alive in the later stages to be used in reforestation to enrich
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the biodiversity by increasing the soil quality and sustaining a healthier forest ecosystem by mycorrhizal relationship. The use of mycelium will not only be better for reforestation results but also mycelium architecture presented in this project aims a healthier and stronger human-nature relationship by teaching through making, series of activities and time. The morphology of nature woven architecture is informed by the species used. Each fungus is unique and has its special characteristics where some like growing in cool environments and some warm and some over the leaf and on the tree trunk. This exploration also questions the fabrication of living materials in a non-sterile environment and challenges which might arise during shifting from sterile lab to nature.
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fruting body
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Micro-scale
network root system
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My woven mycelium architecture Specie: G.lucidum
Fungi structure, sourced and adapted from Haneef M., 2017
The material studied in this research is a living material. Because the material itself grows over time, the visitors will experience new colors and textures every time they visit the site. When the fruiting season arrives, mushrooms will appear on the architecture. Mycelium is a biodegradable material. Thus, visitors will not only experience material’s physical change, but they will also learn the making process of the architecture. They will experience the full cycle of the material, starting with the weaving the scaffold till it falls apart and decomposing fully in the soil.
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pink oyster
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wool
card board mycelium wood chip mixture wood chip
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card board wool
cotton
size: 1.8m x 1.2m x 0.8m
Mushrooms are very unique kingdoms and each has its own characteristic. They are used in mycoforestry for different purposes. In this project, referring to the regulations published by the Danish Nature Agency, the followings are aimed to be achieved: -filtering the water for a healtier water ecosystem. -enriching the soil by decomposition of the material in a shorter time. -strengthening the forest ecosystem through mycorrhizal connections below ground. The manufacturing process of mycelium architecture is informed by different parameters such as the following: weaving strategy, thread type strategy and filling strategy. For instance, the filling strategy for mycelium architecture on the deck has a similar layering system as the ones we see in mycofiltration.
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Density logic
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*Tensile strength comperasion: cotton > jute > wool
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pattern logic: shifting
cotton cotton
less dense very dense
wool mycelium shreeded beech wood wool
Computational design tools can help designers to understand material behaviour. Mycelium is a strong material under compression. However, tension capacity is very low. Thus, because woven scaffolds are tension-based structures, they improve the strength capacity of the material. However, it is still very important to give the right tread type decisions. To do this, strength analyses are studied. Because the cotton has higher tensile capacity compared with wool, surfaces that are low under tension has more layers of woven wool. Also, radiation analyses can be used to predict mushroom formation throughout the year.
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Clitocybe fragrans, min.radiation
Buresø radition anaylises, from May to October
Beech tree
3.2m, Hypoxylon fragiforme, min.radiation
Hypholoma fasciculare, radiation
Laccaria amethstina, min.radiation Clitocybe fragrans, min.radiation Daedalea quercina
Hypoxylon fragiforme, min.radiation Laccaria amethstina, min.radiation
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2 Lotus
Velux International Competition, 2020 Team member: Tessira Reyes Crawford In the Baltic Sea, you find a growing population of algae that is spurred by polluted water, the warming of the planet and the wind. The more algae that are concentrated on the water’s surface the less daylight can reach the plants that live at the seabed. These plants produce oxygen through photosynthesis that allows marine life and insects to survive. However, if the daylight doesn’t reach the seabed, the plants won’t produce enough oxygen, resulting in a “dead zone”. We designed Lotus, an object printed with a transparent, polycarbonate-like material, a rigid light pipe altering the direct light’s path through its printed volume. Lotus’s purpose is to draw light from above the water body’s covered surface through the algae and into the water towards the plants at its seabed.
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Algea bloom
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Nutrients
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Hollow
2013
Bio-plastic
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Lotus was also designed to be a terrarium filled with enough bioplastic to not only encourage buoyancy but also provide nutrients for small plants and insects that are necessary to clean the surface of the water.
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Insects
Lotus is designed to refract light into the water based on the curvature of the material as it bends, allowing the plants to receive diffused daylight beyond the direct day light’s small radius. The Lotus’s diffused light will produce a brighter field of light over the plants at the seabed, encouraging photosynthesis for the production of oxygen.
Brightness increases as the magnitude of the vector decreases along the light’s path.
Algae Algae bloom bloom
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Murky Murky body body of water of water
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Bioplastic Recipe: o 80 gr water o 10 gr patato starch o 10 gr glycerine o 15 gr vinegar Brightness increases as the magnitude of the vector decreases along the light’s path.
dark Accura 60 (SLA) print material
Direct light
Later, the mixture is heated at 2 on an electronic cooking plate. Once, the liquid is as dense as gravy, paper pulps are added.
Light ray’s direction and magnitude
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All of the materials are added to a pot. They are mixed till there are no lumps of potato starch.
Massing study
To 3D print with starch-based bioplastic, the material must cool down and thicken.
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3 Circular Materialities
Workshop, 2019 Team member: Jaume Mercader, Guro Tyse, Nihit Borpujari, Martynas Seskas, Joonseok Pak, Radames Douriet Lopez, Ananyabrata Ghosh, Simona Hnídková, Jack Young Circular Materialities Workshop focuses on material investigation of recycled glass powder. Recycled glass powder material performance is studied by making connections to architectural design. During the materialisation process, 3D printers are used as tools to design more complex systems. We will investigate material grading as means to integrate and exploit particular material properties within the design process, sensing techniques to register material performance across the making, fabrication and curing process, and develop critical understandings of the relationship between material deposition and robotic fabrication workflows [1]. [1] CITAstudio program 2019/20 new material futures: addictive manufacture with bio-based materials
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Recycled glass powder can be used for many different purposes in the industry. Glass powder making process includes various steps, such as sorting, screening, crushing, presoaking, washing, dewatering, and drying. In the workshop, glass powder is mixed with water, xanthan gun and coloring powders. One of the chalanges of using powder glass is reaching a certain thickness and shrinkage percentage of the material. Because glass powder melts, it is hard to mantain thick material. However, playng with the cooking and temperature parametres of the oven, helped the glass dough to stay together.
Space divider model, at CITA Studio
Material test, radius test (before firing and after firing)
Material test, nozzle speed test (before firing and after firing)
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Space divider model, at CITA Studio
Pattern
Prediction
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After firing
Parakeet is used as a plugin to design various patterns. As a thickness strategy, layers of different patterns are overlapped. Two different technics is used to fill the 3D printer tube. Gradient change of the color was only possible when one tube was filled with different colored glass dough. Else, (see image on the left), when different tubes are used to print different colored doughs, color merge didn’t happen. A grasshopper script is used to speculate material behaviour. This allows designers to have more control over both the printed pattern and end result
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4 On This Earth
Undergraduate Project, 2017 Tutors: Berin Gür, Derin İnan, Can Aker, Bilge İmamoğlu, Gökhan Kınayoğlu The project located in the Salt Lake, Turkey, allows visitors to experience nature from a new perspective. People will experience the horizon during different times of the day: the daytime and while the sun is setting. They will view the lake from various heights and orientations. Semi-closed spaces are distributed on the site, starting from the hill towards Salt Lake. While visitors walk at this lake, they will have an opportunity to view the lake from different levels and perspectives. Each space is designed individually, so they are unique and in each, the experience will be also different. Concrete is used as the main building material to create a contrast between two natural materials: soil and salt.
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Empowering directionality towards horizon
Enriching the beauty of horizon
Enriching the beauty of hills Top view
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The first outdoor space is located on the hill facing towards the lake. Spaces are located 500 metres apart from each other. The second main space has an important role - human orientation is shifted. People are directed from one space to the other with the wooden guides buried on the ground.
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Salt Lake is the second largest lake in Turkey and it is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world (see the image on the left).
Sunset at Salt Lake
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Spaces are designed to refer to Cappadocia - a historical region in Turkey that is also known as fairy chimnies. Formation of the landscape goes all the way back to an explosion that happened at Mountain Erciyes. Later in the Paleolithic era, humans started settling and creating their own spaces by excavating masses of rocks from fairy chimney looking mountains.
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5 Change Climate Change
Undergraduate Project, 2019 Tutors: Namık Günay Erkal, Esatcan Coşkun, Heves Beşeli, Duygu Tüntaş Karaman The land studied in this project is the trade hall of Ankara. It is situated in between AOC and Ankamall Shopping Centre. The program is developed by analysing the near environment and it is also influenced by the designer’s interests. The trade hall is transformed into a wellness centre. The wellness centre is designed for both rehabilitating the people who visit the site and the surrounding environment. Therefore, the program contains both a research centre and a conventional treatment centre. It also has a zone that includes cafes, studying rooms, exhibition halls and conference rooms where people who visit the site can socialize. There is only pedestrian access to the site. The site also acts as a continuation of the greenland of AOC.
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Ankara Stream, which is the extension of the Sakarya River, starts from the east of Ankara and extends to the city centre. One of the biggest problems of the Ankara Stream is water pollution. As the pollution increased over the years, the upper surface of a part of the stream was closed because it caused a bad smell.
Map of Ankara Stream
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Landuse around Ankara Stream
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Change in time, Ataturk Forest Farm
Site anaylises and strategies
Area mapping
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The site studied is transformed into a rehabilitation centre both for nature and visitors. It is containing the flora of Ankara and becomes a new part of AOC with the planted rich species.
The site before interference
The site after interference
Ankara stream, the part which passes through the site, is opened. Now, the visitors can come and enjoy the freshwater. The stream is used as a tool to group the program on the site. Each building block that responds to a specific program has its own water resource with a deck which can be used by the visitors.
Busy main roads
Pedestrian access
Vehicle access
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WellnessCentre -Meditation rooms -Conventional treatment rooms - Aroma-theraphy rooms -Hotel
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6 Factory District
Undergraduate Project, 2018 Tutors: Berin Gür, Can Aker, Ziya İmren, Esatcan Coşkun, Güneş Duyul Eskişehir Factory District zone is a historical place and the site we were working on had a very old warehouse. The aim of the design was to bring a new perspective to learning, therefore visual experiment besides practical experience is very important. This gave a start to explode the layers of the warehouse and giving an opportunity to the visitors to analyse the tissue from different heights on the platforms located in the warehouse. The warehouse is re-designed to be used as a cafe and an exhibition hall. Additional to this mass, there was a research centre with libraries and studying spaces open to public use. The facade of the research lab is transparent therefore people who pass nearby will analyse the process of tearing the layers apart.
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Experiencing different layers of information are one of the focuses of this project. Thus, some parts of the warehouse are kept as it is and strengthened, The wall paintings are peeled for showcasing the layers beneath. 1896 Evoluation of the site
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Visitors will walk in between and through exploded walls experiencing layers in a different perspective. Also, visitors can view different parts of the town from different heights.
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Exhibition Participant, 2021 Workshop executives: Raul Estudioama, Stefano Turco, Derya Irkdas Dogu in collaboration with Arkas Sanat Merkezi, Intitut francais de Turquie, IUE Faculty of Fine Arts Mycelium, which is also known as fungal colonies, is the complex branched networking system that becomes visible as white tissues called hyphae [1]. They cover a large space under the soil. They are also one of the important species on earth which continues Carbon cycle by decomposing the waste. Indeed, they help communication between plants, and it is very important to have fungi diversity in a forest for stronger and healthier ecosystem. The images presented in the exhibition are outputs of a thesis research [2]. The forest studied is called Buresø and it is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Different visualization tools are used to express the relationship of mycelium networks and tree species. With a computational design tool, the underground mycelium network of Buresø forest is speculated. With a FARO Scanner, the site is scanned, and it is studied in a section drawing. Last of all, biodiversity
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enrichment through design of the landscape referring to reforestation regulations publish by the Danish Nature Agency is speculated over the years. For this study, the mushroom specie data of the Buresø forest is downloaded from GBIF -the Global Biodiversity Information Facility [3]. [1] Bracco, A. R., Biological Re:Evolution The Resilient Science of Mycelium Design, Californian Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, pg.446-451, Open: Technology. [2] D. Ozlu, P. Nicholas, Architecture of Reforestation: Mycelium as a new building material and design of the fibrous woven scaffolds. [3] “GBIF Backbone Taxonomy”, Fungi in GBIF Secretariat, Checklist dataset https://doi. org/10.15468/39omei.
Buresø Orman kesiti
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Buresø Ormanı, Miselyum toprak altı ağ sistemi Amanita citrina Amanita muscaria Amanita pantherina Amanita rubescens Amaropostia stiptica Apioperdon pyriforme Armillaria ostoyae Ascocoryne cylichnium Ascocoryne sarcoides Athelia epiphylla Auricularia auricula-judae Bispora antennata Bisporella citrina Bjerkandera adusta Bjerkandera fumosa Boletus edulis Boletus ferrugineus Botryobasidium aureum Bulgaria inquinans Byssomerulius corium Calocera viscosa Cerioporus mollis Chlorophyllum olivieri Chondrostereum purpureum Clitocybe fragrans Clitocybe nebularis Clitopilus prunulus Colpoma quercinum Coprinellus micaceus Coprinopsis picacea Cortinarius alboviolaceus Cortinarius bolaris Cortinarius torvus Craterellus tubaeformis Crepidotus pallidus Cyanosporus alni Dacrymyces stillatus Daedalea quercina Eutypa spinosa Exidia glandulosa Exidia nigricans Exidia pithya Exidia recisa Exidia thuretiana Flammulina velutipes Fomes fomentarius Fomitopsis pinicola Galerina sideroides Ganoderma applanatum Gloeophyllum sepiarium Gymnopilus penetrans Helvella crispa Hohenbuehelia serotina Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca Hygrophorus discoxanthus Hygrophorus pustulatus Hymenochaete rubiginosa Hymenopellis radicata Hypholoma capnoides Hypholoma fasciculare Hypoxylon fragiforme Ischnoderma benzoinum Jackrogersella cohaerens Kretzschmaria deusta Kuehneromyces mutabilis Laccaria amethystina Laccaria laccata Lactarius blennius Lactarius quietus Lactarius subdulcis Leccinum versipelle Lentinellus ursinus Lentinus brumalis Lenzites betulinus Lepiota cristata Lycoperdon excipuliforme
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Lycoperdon perlatum Macrolepiota procera Marasmiellus peronatus Megacollybia platyphylla Meripilus giganteus Mycena crocata Mycena galericulata Mycena pelianthina Mycena polygramma Mycena pura Mycena rosea Mycena sanguinolenta Mycena vitilis Mycetinis alliaceus Myxarium nucleatum Neoantrodia serialis Neoboletus luridiformis Neobulgaria pura Orbilia xanthostigma Panellus stipticus Paralepista flaccida Paxillus involutus Peniophora incarnata Peniophora quercina Phlebia radiata Pholiota lenta Physisporinus vitreus Pleurotus ostreatus Pleurotus pulmonarius Plicaturopsis crispa Pluteus cervinus Pluteus cervinus Postia caesia Postia ptychogaster Psathyrella piluliformis Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis Radulomyces confluens Rhodocollybia butyracea Rhytisma acerinum Rickenella fibula Russula atropurpurea Russula cyanoxantha Russula fellea Russula nobilis Russula vesca Schizophyllum commune Scleroderma citrinum Scutellinia scutellata Skeletocutis amorpha Skeletocutis carneogrisea Skeletocutis nemoralis Steccherinum ochraceum Stereum hirsutum Stereum hirsutum Stereum rugosum Stereum subtomentosum Strobilurus esculentus Stropharia cyanea Trametes gibbosa Trametes hirsuta Trametes versicolor Tremella mesenterica Trichaptum abietinum Trichoderma europaeum Tricholoma sulphureum Tubaria furfuracea Vuilleminia comedens Xanthoria parietina Xerocomellus chrysenteron Xerocomellus porosporus Xerocomellus pruinatus Xylaria carpophila Xylaria hypoxylon Xylaria longipes Xylaria longipes Xylodon sambuci
Ischnoderma benzoinum Jackrogersella cohaerens Kretzschmaria deusta Kuehneromyces mutabilis Laccaria amethystina Laccaria laccata Lactarius blennius Lactarius quietus Lactarius subdulcis Leccinum versipelle Lentinellus ursinus Lentinus brumalis Lenzites betulinus Lepiota cristata Lycoperdon excipuliforme
Tremella mesenterica Trichaptum abietinum Trichoderma europaeum Tricholoma sulphureum Tubaria furfuracea Vuilleminia comedens Xanthoria parietina Xerocomellus chrysenteron Xerocomellus porosporus Xerocomellus pruinatus Xylaria carpophila Xylaria hypoxylon Xylaria longipes Xylaria longipes Xylodon sambuci
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8 Starch Based Bioplastic, Space Divider Graduate Project, 2018 Tutors: Paul Nicholas
Because of the industrial revolution and an increase in the number of factories, today we are doing mass production. This is affecting the world’s natural resources and resulting in climate change, global warming and all the other environmental crisis because we are producing more than our needs. With a rapid change from agriculture and stock-raising to this kind of production, our perceived value is also evolving and causing us to use raw sources without awareness. As a result, today we are running out of earth’s natural non-renewable resources and throwing lots of waste into the environment. Therefore, lots of companies are changing their economic model from linear economy to circular economy both for reducing the harm given to nature and to earn profit.
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A sustainable screen for dividing space into two is designed by stacking plant-based bioplastic cork frames side by side. The aim is to adapt the life cycle of a material the circular economy model. Because bioplastic deforms the surface while drying naturally, computational tools are used to make a deep analysis the motion. Comparison between the real model and digital model helped to understand why in some situaitons the bioplastic frame was cracking.
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The material investigation aims for controlling shrinkage rate and transparency. Various recipes are tested and ingredient percentage is changed. To control the transparency clay is added as a material to the starch-based bioplastic. Clay not only helped the designer to play with the translucency, but also it increased the strength of the material. Bioplastic material investigation
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Karamba 3D is used as a plug-in at Grasshopper to simulate the shrinkage which happens during material dries-water evaporation. This tool is beneficial to detect where tearings will happen.
Exploring different framing patterns
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8 Starch Based Bioplastic, Green House Graduate Project, 2018 Tutors: Gabriella Rossi
Today we are seeing a transformation from a linear economy model to a circular economy model and bioplastic is a perfect material that will fit this cycle. Bioplastic is very commonly used in the packaging and food industry. However, we could still see applications in architecture and construction. The bioplastic used in this project is starch-based bioplastic. Starch-based bioplastic’s resistance to water and heat is very low, and this makes this material perfect for temporary usage. Besides this, when bioplastic dries, it deforms the surface and this makes it possible to control the size of the cross-section of the bioplastic sheet on the greenhouse. In the project, it is speculated that the formed bioplastic facade, creates a buffer between inside and outside. Because of this, temperature change during the day and night is minimized.
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Test 4: Controling the temperature during drying
Test 4: Controling the temperature during drying
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Third day 20 C 80 ml water 10 gr patato starch 15 ml vinegar 10 gr glycerine cooking time: 9 minutes
24 C 80 ml water 10 gr patato starch 15 ml vinegar 10 gr glycerine cooking time: 9 minutes
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Shrinkage increases from 10C to 24C, and no shrinkage happens below 10C and over 24C Equale deformation consistent from 10C to 24C
Ductility decreases Flexibility decreases between 10 C and 24 C Ductility increases Flexibility increases under 10 C and ove 24 C *84& water + 16% vinegar homogeneus solution 10 ml solution evoporates in 2 minutes
Exploring Patterns, individual pieces of cork Thickness of the cork: 5 mm
Scaling and Recursive Patterns
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Variety of making technics are tested for controlling shrinkage. As a result, the samples are dried at different temperatures. This allows the designer to control the shrinkage of bioplastic (see the two images at the top). Different patterns are tested and as a result, recursive patterns are used as a pattern-making method to control the gap sizes. Karamba 3D is used to demonstrate material deformation in real-time. Comparing the digital model and physical prototype gives an opportunity to designers to both understand the material behaviour and speculate the result better.
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Transparency of the bioplastic is studied and it is controlled by adding different ratios of paper pulp. This gives an opportunity to grow plants with different radiation needs (please see the next page, the radiation study).
Recipe I 80 ml water 10 gr patato starch 15 ml vinegar 10 gr glycerine
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with 14% paper pulp
with 14% paper pulp, homogeneus mixture
80 ml water 10 gr patato starch 15 ml vinegar 10 gr glycerine 10 gr paper pulp
e analysis and its relationship with buffer volume of the cork: 5 mm
e analysis and its relationship with buffer volume of the cork: 5 mm
80 ml water 10 gr patato starch 15 ml vinegar 10 gr glycerine 15 gr paper pulp
80 ml water 10 gr patato starch 15 ml vinegar 10 gr glycerine 20 gr paper pulp
80 ml water 10 gr patato starch 15 ml vinegar 10 gr glycerine 20 gr paper pulp
Exploring Volumes by Overlaping skins-volume analysis Thickness of the cork: 5 mm
Exploring Volumes by Overlaping skins-volume analysis Thickness of the cork: 5 mm
Section line:
Strengt increases Transparency decreceasduring Capturing the heat is important Light transmission decreases night, therefor the bigger volumes, less heat transformation. Capturing the heat is important during night, therefor the bigger volumes, less heat transformation.
Section line:
Section line: Section line:
Cross section, exploring gaps inbetween the skin
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Flora Biodiversity
Circulation
Kastelet is the site studied for this application. Kastelet is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is chosen, because of its topographical differencesCopenhagen is a flat city whereas Kastelet is an old defencing island which is surrounded by a hill.
Hight of the plants
12m
10m
Different floras are placed inside the greenhouse and based on Mapping the sunlight needs Mapping of the plants, luminary maps and temperature maps are studied (see images at the top).
8m 7m
1m 0m 19C
21C
California flora, San Francisco
Mediteranian flora
21.5C Western Australia flora
26C
North Africa flora
Main paths Sub-paths
Pillow cross section map, Pillow cross section map, temperature for plant for plant temperature growth growth
LuminaryLuminary map for material map for material
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800
800
LuminaryLuminary
1200
1200
19C
19C
Temperature Temperature
26C
Pattern size Pattern map for size map for structure structure 26C
Dense andDense smaller and smaller recursive patterns recursive patterns
Temperature
Perspective view to the site with the mass, floor plans
The greenhouse contains the following floras: California flora, Mediterranean flora, Western flora, North Africa flora. North Africa flora, 12m Western Australia flora, 10m Learning hub California flora, 7m
Exit
Entrance, 6m
Entrance
Mediteranian Flora
Medetarainian flora, 8m
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