LIVING PROTOYPES

Introduction

A European research project on digitally fabricated building components made with bio-based materials, involving three university institutes and three industry partners from Denmark, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Over the course of 18 months, three university institutes collaborated with three industry partners on digitally fabricating prototypes for building components for living spaces made with the bio-based materials earth, flax fibre and bioplastics.

• IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona and WASP from Massa Lombarda
• ITKE from the University of Stuttgart and FibR from Kernen
• CITA from the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen and COBOD from Copenhagen

Events

• LIVING PROTOTYPES #1, 28 February 2022
• LIVING PROTOTYPES #2, 09 December 2022

This project is supported by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development on behalf of the German Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building with funds from the research innovation programme Zukunft Bau.