Silk Pavillion – CNC Deposited Silk & Silkworm Construction at the MIT Media Lab

Author @FilipFounder and editor-in-chief at CreativeApplications.Net, co-founder and development director at HOLO and a researcher/lecturer at the University of Westminster, London.Category Environment / Featured / Members / ObjectsPeople Carlos David Gonzalez Uribe / Jared Laucks / Jorge Duro-Royo / Markus Kayser / Mediated Matter GroupMIT Mediated Matter group focuses on Nature-inspired design and design-inspired Nature. The group is no longer active. See https://oxman.com / Neri OxmanNeri Oxman is known for work that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. She is also a former professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she led the Mediated Matter research group. https://oxman.com / Date Posted on:

Created at the Mediated Matter Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales. The primary structure was created of 26 polygonal panels made of silk threads laid down by a CNC (Computer-Numerically Controlled) machine, followed by a swarm of 6,500 silkworms spinning flat non-woven silk patches as they locally reinforced the gaps across CNC-deposited silk fibers.

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