Shaping Environments: Bio-Matter
| College of Fine Arts CMU | 2022-2025 |
| Material Research | Design Computation |
In our world, waste streams constitute the only responsible material resource. As of 2020, humanity officially became the primary shaper of the planet. According to ‘Scientific American’ (2020), all human-made objects now outweigh the total biomass of all living organisms on Earth. The continued accumulation of synthetic matter leaves an irreversible footprint, contributing to the ossified state of the planet’s landscape. Working with waste streams and natural materials, this research seeks new paradigms of material circularity and resilience - where architectural forms can “self-care” while remaining entangled within their local ecologies. Shaping Environments is a framework that explores regenerative material formations beyond our current petrochemical reality. Positioned at the intersection of matter, environment, form, and computation, these workflows investigate new techno-ecological imaginaries through the production of material prototypes, seeking resilient material systems in which architectural forms actively participate in biological processes through the binding power of bioplastics and mycelium.
Stained Glass Bioplastics: Pioneering Biomaterials 2025;
Biochromatic Loops: SIGraDi 2025.