COSMOGRAMME

The research focuses on additive manufacturing seaweed-based bioplastic. The goal is to provide an alternative for synthetic materials that can lead to a new mediation between the built and the natural environment and potentially lessen the toxic waste cycle caused by overproduction.

Climate change has already had observable harmful effects on the environment; less than a tenth of the material produced is recycled, leaving harmful environmental footprints, threatening the marine ecosystem, food safety, and human health contributing to climate change.

A graphic visual depiction has been used to map and show the elements, agents, context, and information that represent the research’s leading drivers. The diagram is divided into four interconnected areas: materiality, seaweed-based bioplastic, context, and sustainability.

MATERIALITY

Bioplastic’s material composition, applications and advantages

SEAWEED-BASED BIOPLASTIC

Research approach, material analysis, fabrication and design strategies

CONTEXT

Excessive seaweed bloom’s causes and impact

SUSTAINABILITY

Benefits of additive manufacturing seaweed as a bioplastic

Seaweed-Based Bioplastic // Cosmogramme is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at Master in Advanced Architecture in 2021/22 by

Student: Elena Petruzzi

Faculty: Mireia Luzàrraga