Process

CARTOGRAPHY_ locations and soil measurements

location 1

location 2

location 3

location	soil fertility	moisture	pH	temperature	sun light	humidity
1	633μs/cm	63%	4.0	9.5ºC	7777 lux	35%
2	368μs/cm	99%	3.5	6.8ºC	593 lux	42%
3	550μs/cm	78%	3.5	5.6ºC	1498 lux	40%

MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION_3D printing

MYCELIUM

I am trying 2 processes to try cultivate mycelium on my 3D printed shapes, first process would be inoculating the pieces while they are humid, and the second would be to inoculate them afterwards when they are dried. For both am working with a biocomposite using wood dust as inorganic matter, because it's food for the mycelium.

Preparing wood dust

STEP 0: MAKING THE BIOCOMPOSITE OF WOODDUST

WOOD DUST BIOCOMPOSITE FOR 3D PRINT
Alginate 16gr
CMC 20gr
H2O 800ml
Glycerol 64gr
WOOD DUST 200gr

INOCULATING WET PIECES

STEP 1: AUTOCLAVE BIOCOMPOSITE

biocomposited ready

AUTOCLAVE

**STEP 2: CLEANING AND STERILIZING WITH ALCOHOL 3D PRINTER AND TOOLS **

STEP 3: 3D PRINTING WHILE SPRAYING EVERYTHING WITH PEROXIDE

STEP 4: INOCULATING PIECES AND KEEPING THEM ISOLATED ON AN STERIL ENVIRONMENT

WET PIECES INOCULATED

INOCULATING DRY PIECES

PREPARATION DRY PIECES FOR INOCULATION

OBSERVING DECAY PROCESS

BIOCOMPOSITE

Did first try-out of my shapes to 3D print on biocomposite to see if they were working.

BIOCOMPOSITE 3D PRINT

ORGANIC BIOCOMPOSITE FOR 3D PRINT
Xantana Gum 8gr
H2O 200ml
clementine skin dust 45gr

BIOCOMPOSITE 3D PRINT

PARAMETRIC DESIGN

For the formal developement of the pieces am relating the soil measurements obtainned at each location to a parameter in grasshopper, in this way, each shape is a cartography itself of the data obtained at that location. Am inspired by the data graphic and how those can become tridimensional.

try-outs

First try-outs translating each location's data into a series of blocks-set

Second try-out translating each location's data into an organic shape

finals

I did an adaptation from this WEAVE TOWERS tutorial by Architutors to develop my prototype shapes, where i use the soil measurements to define the diferent parameters and optain a series of corelated shapes.

PROTOTYPES ON RHINO

Prototypes

Now I've developed the tridimensional design of the pieces am first printing the prototypes in clay, to understand the shape of the pieces, how the machine reacts and prints them and to also have them to keep them as models. PROTOTYPE LOCATION 01

PROTOTYPE CLAY LOCATION 01

PROTOTYPE LOCATION 02

PROTOTYPE CLAY LOCATION 02

PROTOTYPE LOCATION 03

PROTOTYPE CLAY LOCATION 03

Mentoring notes

Half-fabrication files

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1. Test file: 3d modelling test ↩