Polybricks

EXHIBITION: Centre Pompidou, Paris 2017, Mutations / Créations, as a part of research & design work for the Sabin Design Lab

TEAM: Jingyang (Leo) Liu, David Rosenwasser

Polybricks is generated with rules, principles and behavior of bone formation. Inspired by the functional morphology of bone structure, an anisotropic mesostructure was generated based on the loading condition of the brick. A series of bricks with variegated porosity aggregated into a wall which is light and porous at the top and dense at the base to carry load and maintain efficient structural integrity. The polybrick research utilizes readily available 3D printing technology to develop large scale forms through the aggregation of interlocking component based systems.