Fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) is a family of high-performance composite materials combining fibers and polymer matrix, structurally resembling biological materials. While biological design principles could naturally be applied for engineered FRP, these are hardly applicable with standard FRP fabrication processes relying totally on moulds. Searching for alternative design and fabrication processes, the research presents the integration of Fabric Materiality, relying on the textile capacities of the material to enable abio-inspired approach. Learning from a bird’s nest, principles regarding material, structure and construction process were applied to an architectural FRP structure, which demonstrates traits of biological composite materials, suggesting a resilient porous matter-structure

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When: 2017

Where: KineSysS