The project, Composite BioForms, is exhibited in the Printed Tectonics show for the NGV Melbourne Design Week. In this series of prototypes we are printing the outer skins of the walls in wood-bioplastics and recycled plastics with embedded
natural fibre composite tensile structural reinforcement (flax), within which a mycelium core is grown for compressive structure and insulation. We are developing an approach to fabricating biodegradable sandwich panels without petrochemicals.
Composite BioForms
Project Team: Roland Snooks, Natalie Alima, Hesam Mohamed
RMIT AUD Workshop Team: Kevin O'Connor, Matty Fuller, Drew Harding.
Supported by: Boeing Australia, RMIT Design Archives.
