A escassez de equipamentos de proteção individual (EPI), provocada pela pandemia de COVID-19, fez com que grupos de pesquisa em design, designers, e membros da comunidade maker, envolvidos no desenvolvimento de tecnologias 3D, em diversos países, trabalhassem para suprir esta demanda oferecendo, através da manufatura aditiva, a fabricação de artefatos de custo relativamente baixo que são simultaneamente detalhados em seu design, complexos em sua articulação e únicos. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em discutir como a metodologia Design em Parceria impactou as parcerias, as soluções desenvolvidas e os resultados da ação emergencial de enfrentamento realizada na PUC-Rio. Além de estabelecer uma reflexão sobre as contribuições do trabalho desenvolvido para os estudos e ações futuras. O projeto possibilitou a doação de cerca de 20000 face shields, 5000 óculos de proteção, 150 válvulas para a adaptação e apoio em sistemas de ventilação mecânica. Além da quantidade de equipamentos distribuídos, o desenvolvimento desta ação permitiu a divulgação perante a sociedade sobre o papel do designer em trabalhos colaborativos, principalmente, entre áreas diversas na busca por soluções efetivas.
This article aims to disclose the developments of a research on constructive methods of lightweight structures, developed by the Laboratory for Research on Living Design, LILD, from Pontifical Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio. One of the objectives of this paper is, using principles of biomimesis, to systematize constructive processes by means of the understanding of how nature creates its forms. In the Laboratory, experiments with soap bubbles and catenaries have been serving this purpose In this case, studies resulted in the solution to the covering of the newly constructed LILDs building, located in the campus of the University, a textile-architecture where structural elements and joints, usually made of steel or wood, were replaced by bamboo culms tied together. The present article also demonstrates how these culms were benefited in order to meet specific requirements of the project.
Architecture and Design, whether developing ideas in creative process or implementing projects, are not out from the emerging challenges that involve people and environmental well-being. Created by its own community in a specific place, vernacular design is a fundamental identity expression of these individuals, their relationship with its territory and, at the same time, the cultural diversity of the world. This article express the importance of vernacular for essential sustainability issues, specifically related to future critical scenarios of water consumption in small scale food self-production. Moreover, this research will illustrate these important topics throughout the exhibition “Prato do Que” (2019), developed by Museum of Tomorrow, with the Laboratório de Investigação em Livre Desenho (LILD - Brasil) and Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile.
This article aims to disclose some aspects of the research and constructive methods on lightweight structures made of tied-up bamboos developed by the Laboratory for Investigation in Living Design, LILD, from PUC-Rio. In this paper, we demonstrate the way of obtaining a shape similar to the one of a soap bubble when blown and manipulated by the researcher, according to previously established parameters. The approximation of such a geometry is achieved through a variety of interactive experiments between the states of a model electronic, manufactured /miniature, and in use that follow the logics of geodesic lines, obtained by means of a grid when inflated. Finally, we present results of initial observations of the assemblage of the bamboo reticular structure in the in use state, that we call The Bubble Hall.
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