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	<title>RS3. Digital Tectonics &#187; Lana Awad</title>
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		<title>Poro-city</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Jianhong Wu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lana Awad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poro-city is an investigation into 3D printing lightweight structures comprised of materials with variable compositions. Taking inspiration from trabecula bones, Poro-city integrates computational form-finding strategies with biologically inspired fabrication. Concrete independently has a high compression strength but what limits its structural capability is the heavy weight of the material. By combining concrete with Styrofoam balls, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Poro-city is an investigation into 3D printing lightweight structures  comprised of materials with variable compositions. Taking inspiration  from trabecula bones, Poro-city integrates computational form-finding  strategies with biologically inspired fabrication. Concrete  independently has a high compression strength but what limits its  structural capability is the heavy weight of the material. By combining  concrete with Styrofoam balls, the resulting material has the added  advantage of being lighter yet still structural. Depending on the added  number of Styrofoam balls, the resulting material will have a wide range  of variable densities, and therefore a correlating structural  performance level. This gradation ranges from an extremely lightweight,  nonstructural material, to an extremely heavy and structural material.  With the help of computational optimization softwares, Poro-city will be  able to identify the level of structural requirements in the design and  therefore, the correlating composition of the variable material  required. By printing functionally graded concrete with variable  compositions combined with optimization softwares, Poro-city will allow  for not only the production of structures that are lighter, stronger,  and more freeform, but also structures that can be optimized in terms of  its strength, weight and material usage.</p>
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