Project description
Innovative biofoam technology to transform the construction industry
Sustainable materials in architecture are becoming increasingly essential as the construction industry seeks green alternatives. The EIC-funded ARCHIBIOFOAM project aims to advance the field by developing multifunctional biofoams from bio-based materials. These cutting-edge biofoams should be able to change shape and bear loads thanks to advanced 3D printing and computational design techniques. Researchers will focus on creating biofoams with programmable properties, designing optimal metamaterial structures and developing new fabrication processes for components with tailored stiffness. By manipulating the biofoam microstructure, the material will expand or contract in response to temperature and humidity. This technology promises to eliminate the need for multi-material construction, lower CO2 emissions and promote sustainability with recyclable and compostable materials.
Objective
The overall objective of the ARCHIBIOFOAM project is to create mono-material yet multifunctional systems for architecture through the additive fabrication of shape-changing load-bearing biofoams. Our approach integrates biobased materials science, computational metamaterial design, and robotic additive manufacturing to enable the structuring of the novel biofoam material at multiple hierarchical scales. The objectives are (i) to create 3D-printable biofoams with programmable properties at the microscale, (ii) to develop a computational design algorithm for optimal biofoam-based metamaterial structures and (iii) to develop the fabrication processes for producing components with tailored stiffness and autonomously actuating parts at an architectural scale. The objectives will be achieved by manipulating the microstructure of bubble films in the biofoam to directionally expand or contract to external stimuli such as temperature and humidity. The mesoscale geometry of the biofoam will be automatically generated by a multi-objective optimization algorithm to achieve the targeted shape changes. The computationally designed biofoam structures will have both loadbearing and shape-changing capabilities constructed at the meter scale by our new robotic additive fabrication processes. Our biobased mono-material systems will meet multiple performance criteria and eliminate the need for multi-material layered construction by leveraging the properties and geometry of materials at multiple hierarchical scales. We will engage with the AEC sector to facilitate the uptake of our new digital design and fabrication process to enable a reduction of embodied CO2 emissions through the use of alternative materials. This novel computational fabrication approach will align with global efforts to address the current climate challenge, aiming to enable biobased materials that can outperform high embodied energy construction materials while being recyclable and compostable at their end-of-life.
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01
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02150 Espoo
Finland
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