Towards 3d Printing Pre-Industrial Materials

This research is based on “Compo”, a dough-like thermoplastic material widely used to produce well-preserved antique furniture made in mainland Europe. The Compo technique may today seem gruesome or unethical since it involves the use of animal bones and rabbit skin, but the actual products can be disposed of as nutritious additions to household compost. This project sprung from the hypothesis that if the way we produce today is largely a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, then the re-introduction of pre-industrial techniques into modern systems of manufacture might bear some solutions to the problem of waste and overproduction. The poster presents the techniques and methods used to create an "architects lamp" towards the evolution of the material to be used in 3d Extruders.