BIOMIX:
Biomaterial Structures
Thesis for master of fine art
BIOMIX defines a material revolution offering significant resource efficiencies while reducing the environmental impact of the material industry. Finding a way to encourage biology to produce material for the material industry with living organisms helps mitigate the negative impact to the environment, reduce waste of the resources, and produce zero waste.
BIOMIX explores new approaches to materials design and asks questions about material circularity. How can more consideration be given to the environment? Additionally, how can pattern structures impact the flexibility and strength of a material? Iterative sample making was central to the project, where both successes and failures led to fascinating conclusions.
Value
A vital issue today is ‘sustainability’ which emphasizes the regeneration of nature for a healthy environment and biodegradable design to promote zero waste of our resources. Many consumers are moving to adopt more organic and eco-friendly products maintaining sustainable healthy lifestyles focused on the environment. BIOMIX asks questions about material circularity and investigates how pattern structure can impact the flexibility and strength of a material. This research contributes to exploring new approaches to materials design.
Process of Prototyping implementation
This project was a one-year duration and the journey includes three parts, my initial research, design ideation using 3D printing pulse homemade biomaterials, and the building of an extensive library of samples that led to a body of knowledge requiring biomaterials and their properties.
Color story
BIOMIX examines various ingredients for diversity and color variance in the raw materials and extends the scalability and transparency of color allowance by different shapes and thicknesses of pattern structure.
