Living Interface, Beyond Boundaries

Campinas, Brazil

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Living Interface, Beyond Boundaries

Campinas, Brazil

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Albert Franco

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Commercial › Showroom
Industrial › Factory Laboratory Research Facility

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Living Interface, Beyond boundaries
A Public Factory for Building Materials, Prototyping, and Social Engagement

This Project was designed as graduate student project done at GSAPP and under the guidance of critic David Benjamin. The premise of the project is to design pilot factory for a biomaterial company Ecovative. The site for the brick factory is located in Campinas, Brazil, South America’s largest hub for many biotech Manufacturing companies. The project is grounded in the densely populated city center. The Projects seeks to address Campinas, Brazil as a circular economy.

The Living Interface Factory seeks to create a new business model for large-scale production of building materials. The programs that allow the circularity of Production are a local Coffee shop and Corn Venders distribution center. Unlike many other Factories, the Living Interface Factory is a public building that depends on its locals to purchase coffee and corn. The Bio waste of coffee and corn provide bio-waste nutrients for the living building envelope of the factory.

In this project I was seeking to find a balance between a Biomaterial design, a public building, and a large-scale production factory. Being located in the city center off of a busy plaza influenced how I could address the public. Typical factories usually run horizontally and use lots of ground floor. Since I've imbedded the factory into the skin of the Building, the important factors of the design become wall surface area and wall height. To achieve large-scale production, then the building then became much taller. The building is also rounded and has Niches to create continuity with the adjacent plaza the corners for continuity of plaza and to create areas for the public to engage with the interface.

The inclusion of automated robotic harvesting was essential for a vertical brick factory that can produce about 60,000 bricks a week. Six automated Robots fills, scans, and empties, thousands of molds continuously. The envelope is nested on both sides with six different mold shapes, the most common brick shapes used in the building industry. Because these factory walls are solid so the source of light for the building became the roof. The walls undulate at the top to create situations were the walls act as self-shading for the roof. The roof design, made of ETFE panels, is then slumped to decrease the annual radiation of its surface.

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Living Interface, Beyond Boundaries

Campinas, Brazil

Living Interface, Beyond Boundaries

Campinas, Brazil

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