experimental wool material

on-going material research of wool waste

Sheep raised primarily for food is a source of “poor” quality wool. Their wool is treated as an excess material that can be sold below price or cannot be sold to any company at all.

 

The aim of the project is to bring the idea of sustainability to architecture and the textile industry through design and additive manufacturing. The experimental wool material examines the boundaries of wool waste which can be used as an architectural material. Wool with its thermal insulation properties combined with clay additives and 3D printing technology should thus solve the problems of local farmers, the wool supply chain and material recycling.

The material research is based on local problems that seeks to redefine collective consciousness. At the same time, it is trying to spread out how to work with waste and new technologies in the architecture or design field. It could be an ecological replacement for many of the resistant non-degradable materials we use every day.

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wool waste

Wool as a waste material has been processed by well known techniques and can be already used as recycled thermal insulation material. Although, new technologies, such as 3D printing, offer us more options and they can recycle vulnerable wool waste in a different way. Wool powder with clay could be extruded together and implemented in a construction context. The combination of wool and clay is expected to bring new innovations in ecological materials..

3D printed prototypes were created with

 

3D printed by Juan Mazzuchelli | FABBRO STUDIO

wool waste donation from Eugenio Constanza | Colmenar, Spain

developed in MEDIALAB PRADO in Madrid | May - June 2021

team of volunteers: Ingrid Pastor, Yukari Kuroyama-Lynch, Ana Zdravković, Rochele Melo

supported by Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague and p²LAB studio

special thanks to Claudia Varela, Buj Studio and fashion designer Linda Havrlíková

selected for the exhibition of finalists 2021

THE SLOVAK DESIGN AWARD 2021 

Slovak Design Center