Natural Composite Pillar
Natural Composite Pillar Research Prototype by Stylianos Dritsas and Javier Fernandez is a winner of the 2019 Silver A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design.
Natural Composite Pillar is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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The prototype is one of the largest 3D printed biological artifacts today, created using a novel sustainable manufacturing technology deploying exclusively natural materials: Cellulose, which is the most abundant biomaterial on earth, associated with plant matter, and Chitin, a biomolecule extracted from the exoskeleton of insects and arthropods. The physical and mechanical material properties are in the range of high-density synthetic foams and low-density timbers. The artifact is based on renewable sources, widely available in nearly every ecosystem and naturally biodegradable.
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Natural Composite Pillar by Stylianos Dritsas and Javier Fernandez
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Natural Composite Pillar Research Prototype
Natural Composite Pillar is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Natural Composite Pillar is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Natural Composite Pillar is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
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Stylianos Dritsas and Javier Fernandez
Stylianos Dritsas is an Assistant Professor in the department of Architecture and Sustainable Design at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where he established the Digital Design and Fabrication Laboratory. His research interests in digital technologies investigate how contemporary computer-controlled methods of production affect upstream the way we think and create design. Due to its technological nature his research work is integrally cross-disciplinary, requiring collaboration between architecture, engineering and the sciences. His current research is on sustainable methods for large-scale manufacturing using natural biological materials in collaboration with faculty of material science. Past theoretical and applied research work in academia and industry resulted in numerous publications in architectural and engineering conferences and journals as well as awards in research and education. Prior to SUTD, he was an Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in London and taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA, Architectural Association in London, UK and Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a registered Architect, ARB/UK and Architect/Engineer, TEE/Greece.
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Singapore University of Technology and Design
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