This project focus on the utilisation of natural elements in order to create a unique composite, aiming to achieve the most of mechanical, physical and chemical properties from all the components involved. Supported by a core made of homegrown bacterial cellulose, the flax textile was saturated with a resin matrix in a process of vacuum infusion. Each procedure fetched relevant insights about the following ones, not only technical but in conceptual means as well. The former, exhaustively achieved by a trial and error process. The later, essential to establish the project in a genuine scope: the role of each material in the assemblage, which sensations should it trigger and how users could perceive natural fibres as main components on their daily used objects.
Moreover, this project does not exclusively produces knowledge about the interaction of biofilms in composites, on the contrary, it sets precedents for potential future studies and applications.
Developed with:
Ricardo Ponce
