Danish agency Pure Materials Studio created 4 biomaterials from sawdust recovered from the sawmill of flooring producer Dinesen to discover the potential of utilizing wooden waste to make constructing supplies.
The biomaterials are exhibited within the gallery house of Dinesen's showroom in central Copenhagen by means of an “architectural set up” known as Smuld – which suggests “sawdust” in Danish – designed in collaboration with native workplace Kim Lenschow.
The set up options 4 brown supplies, constructed from a mixture of sawdust and pure wooden binders, organized as large geometric “portals” mounted on picket frames.
Pure Materials Studio used a variety of sawdust, from superb mud to coarser wooden chips, left over from manufacturing on the Dinesen sawmill in Jels, Denmark.
“It is sensible to make use of the entire tree and create worth from the residue in order that we now not suppose there’s a distinction between premium wooden and discarded elements,” stated studio founder Bonnie Hvillum.
“It's actually about designing techniques for all elements of the uncooked tree – from the bark to the baseboards,” she informed Dezeen.
The primary materials is a versatile textile constructed from a combination of finely sifted wooden plaster and planer shavings, which the studio infuses with pure latex derived from the rubber tree.
To make the second materials, the group plastered superb sawdust and cellulose on wooden fiber boards to type insulation.
“The fabric opens up the opportunity of optimizing wall layering, each functionally and aesthetically,” stated Hvillum.
Delicate, semi-translucent Japanese shoji screens knowledgeable the third materials, which additionally combines finely sifted wooden plaster and planer chips. The studio forged this mixture in paper-thin, caramel-colored sheets.
The fourth materials is the studio's “first try” at making a structural wooden fiber panel for architectural use. It’s held along with a lignin binder – the natural polymer that provides wooden its power and stiffness – developed in collaboration with the Danish Institute of Expertise.
“The binders we used are primarily based on biopolymers that come from the tree itself,” defined Hvillum.
“Lignin and cellulose are sturdy tissue cells that type the construction of a tree and might be extracted to be used in man-made materials compositions.”
Pure Materials Studio used three strategies to mix the sawdust with pure binders – fluid casting in molds, stress forming with warmth, and making a sort of plaster to be unfold instantly onto the floor of different supplies on web site.
This enables the clippings to turn into useful constructing supplies regardless of the quick fibers.
“The sawdust fibers should not that lengthy, and a number of the residue is actually sawdust, which doesn't act as reinforcement in any respect,” Hvillum stated.
The various molecule lengths of wooden polymers, that are shorter than these of artificial polymers, will dictate how lengthy it takes for every materials to biodegrade, in accordance with Hvillum.
“Wooden has so many alternatives with its complicated organic accumulation,” she stated.
“That is what could also be known as a material-based course of, letting the fabric prospects drive the course and use [of a material]. In the long run, it led us to 4 completely different supplies with very completely different properties.”
The supplies have been organized as large-scale interactive portals within the Dinesen showroom to encourage guests to look at and evaluate their qualities.
Pure Materials Studio has a various portfolio of labor, together with tableware for a restaurant constructed from leftover seashells and a futuristic fossil-free inside put in throughout this month's three Days of Design pageant, which is the studio's most bold venture so far now.
Pictures is by Nikolaj Bonde.
Smuld is on show on the Dinesen showroom, Søtorvet, 5, 1371, Copenhagen, from 26 April to September 2024. See the Dezeen Occasions Information for an up-to-date listing of structure and design occasions happening world wide.