Fall 2019
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication
Critic: Nathan King
Collaborator: McKenna Mitchell
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication
Critic: Nathan King
Collaborator: McKenna Mitchell
This project tests how the organic material qualities of clay could open up new possibilities for technical use in landscapes- specifically in the stabilization of soil on planted slopes. The intent of this research was to create a technical landscape product with two main attributes: a decomposing clay body that can deliver nutrients and seeds to the soil as it breaks down, and a product designed through a digital toolpath for in-situ printing, which offers more customization and design opportunity than traditional geotextiles in landscape architecture.
This is the first known use of 3D printed clay in an application for landscape architecture and is meant to provoke more work on the ways in which landscape architects can embrace such emerging technologies.
