2025
Materials: wood sawdust (beech and oak), natural binders
Dimensions: 1 meter H, “branches” diam. 4 cm, thickness 3mm

The project is divided into two experimental phases: in both I used a process inspired by plants growth where the development happens through a continuous circle of action, answer and recalibration. The morphogenic growing process is based on inflatable spindles and bio composite and it answers to environmental and structural imputs such as gravity, weight, temperature, air, generating information that are reintegrated in further decisions. The pneumatic pressure acts in similar way of the hydrostatic pressure; the latex air chamber presses against the bio-composite as the protoplasm presses against the cellulose cell walls (cellular turgidity).

The form emerges from the continuous interaction between human intention, process constraints and matter behavior. The process naturally produces forms that the human brain interprets as natural because they follow some recurring rules in biological system such as branching, continuity of fluxus, gradual variation of sections, local adaptivity to ground stress, no uniforn growing. The process constitute a morphologic system not completed closed; the matter can join chemically and remain alive; this means that the final form is a temporary configuration potentially evolving.

The phase n°1 explored a scultural form (the study of the ‘shell’) to investigate the physical limits of the material worked in a single block, testing the structure’s ability to self-support and the maximum extension of the arms in the void.