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PROJECTS:
[RESULT]
RESEARCH/EXPERIMENTS
[KEYWORD]
DESCRIPTION
DATE
RESOURCEterracotta material research
January//2025<—>Ongoing
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170591
Micheal Pawlyn Biomimicry in Architecture
Application of Clay Materials within Architectural Design
January//2025<—>Ongoing
:material research into how terracotta behaves in different environments
initial experiments were to re-capture moisture—to attempt reusing/recycling the moisture evaporated from the terracotta in project:Terracoola. Multiple environments were used, the 2 significant ones were: soil and water.
containers[recapturing]
soil
pollutants in water
atempting to recapture moisture evaporated after having absorbed water.
attempting to create a self sustained system of providing moisture to the terracotta structure and if terracotta can terracotta can solely evaporate the water content absorbed from polluted liquids.
atempting to understand how water flows towards the terracotta structure.
Findings
the water can be recaptured using materials such as glass and plastic but currently no systems to put into practice.
the terracotta structure collaborates with the soil to maintain an optimal continuous amount of moisture absorption—while also not drying up the soil too fast [can add water periodically but did not need as much as the iterations without the soil]
the structure when exposed to a slurry of dirt,coffee,soil was capable of evaporating unpolluted water—water which was succesfully recaptured using glass as the medium material.
the structure, when exposed to a slurry of turmeric and vegetable oils, collect the pollutants[that break surface tension//near the structure] at the base.
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