Living Prototype: IAAC_ITKE_CITA_

“LIVING PROTOTYPES: Digital Fabrication with Biomaterials”

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona (Earth), alongside its industry partner WASP, collaborated with CITA from the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen (Bioplastics) and ITKE from the University of Stuttgart (Flax Fibre) respectively.

“The digitally fabricated prototypes for building components, made with the bio-based materials earth, flax fibre and bioplastics, were developed in a European research project.

Living Prototypes’ pavilion is the product of prefabricated components in three different building materials, showcasing the future of a circular and sustainable construction. IAAC’s earthen columns were printed in Barcelona and transported to Berlin, where they were attached to ITKE Stuttgart’s flax fibre and timber slabs. CITA’s cellulose wall elements close the loop on a floor-to-ceiling 1:1 scale demonstrator on the promising future of construction with biomaterials and digital fabrication methods.