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Planetoid on tour

Planetoid on tour

 

 

 

Planetoid prototype at the SHErobots exhibition in Sydney (Photo: private collection Henriette Bier)

 

Insects and other small critters will have new shelters in the city if it is up to Henriette Bier and colleagues. They collaborated on a prototype ‘planetoid’ using robotic 3D printing technology with a wood-based biopolymer. The creation has multiple cavities and small spaces, providing biotopes for plants, insects, and small animals to literally breathe new life into these spaces. The project is a collaboration between complex projects of the architecture department and landscape architecture of the urbanism department of the Faculty of Architecture.

 

The asteroid was part of the Dutch Design Week and later the exhibition SHErobots, an event at the University of Sydney on robotics projects by and for women. The presentation of the planetoid was supported by the Dutch embassy and the TU Delft Robotics Institute. For Henriette Bier, the exhibition was part of a longer tour of Asia and Australia.

 

More on biodiversity, 3D printing and robots on the Architecture and Built environment website.

Science editor Jos Wassink

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