Computation and Waste

Long description

Computation and Waste is a project that combines the capabilities of  computational/parametric design software with the pressing issue of construction waste. By using a 3D-scanner, discarded material is digitalized and collected into a digital archive, which the software uses to create products with the given geometries. The goal is to minimize the need for raw materials when building and designing, and to think beyond standardized materials to envision multiple material futures.

What can be designed when irregular surface structures no longer hinder a design process?

In this project, I explored how material found in a dumpster can be used to design with. By using the production material as a prime parameter to guide the design process, I aim to rethink the relationship between design and production.

As a designer, I feel responsible for the ways in which design is produced and I find it important to rethink my position and responsibilities in the production process and its effects on the ecological, social and material realities as well as the way we design. By departing from a small-scale context, I intended to explore how we can minimize the need for raw materials when building and designing.

With the shift in perspective that my project introduces, the construction dumpster is turned into an archival site, and waste becomes material for the design process.

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