Innovative Biomaterials for Product Design

The Gift of Nature

In short
Explore the Possibilities of Apple Tree Leaves that Do Not Degrade Naturally
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Personal Project
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Innovative Biomaterials & Sustainable Design & Product Design
Completed
January 20, 2023

Explore the possibilities of apple leaves that do not degrade naturally

Everything lives, and nature follows its essential law and blooms and bears fruit. With the dust-like leaves gathering in the wind, fire and dust are instead gifts that people give back to nature. The best gift may be to re-collect and optimize the soil.

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Research

In the climate change, unusual temperature changes and air pollutions change the original living environment of plants, and plants with high requirements for living environment have lower survival rates, for example apple leaves are difficult to degrade in soil, peanut shells seedling burnt, plaster powder is highly alkaline. However, apple leaves, peanut shells, and plaster powder mixed together can effectively ferment and decompose. Moreover, plaster powder can make the acidic soil achieve the combined effect of acid and alkali, making the soil more fertile.

I found that people's sitting position is not well corrected in the normal learning process. Among them, high legs, stilted legs, and crossed legs account for the most. And the wrong leg sitting position affects the shape of the human body, and it can be found that the bowed back is more obvious.

Design

In the upright and reclined sitting pressure gradient map shows that: Reclined pressure gravity area is much lower than the upright pressure gravity area, so the reclined is more comfortable. Besides, the waist pad is ergonomically the most comfortable S-shape. The size is freely adjustable in the form of straps.

In order to increase the use of apple leaves and peanut shells that are difficult to decompose with maximum strength.

I designed to increase the force area in the form of a similar Rubik's cube, as well as at a height higher than the normal people leg.

The style of slippers is fixed with the natural form of twine slippers (the part used to fix the foot on top of the slippers).

Experiment Development

It is difficult to mix apple leaves, peanut shells, plaster powder and glutinous rice flour. In order to fully integrate the ingredients, I combined the ingredients with the techniques used to make the ingredients flour, kneading, hammering, beating with a stick and rolling flat.

Drying method: steaming, baking, shade ventilation.

Final

Based on the recycling of biomaterials, I chose apple leaves that are sensitive to atmospheric pollution and difficult to degrade, the peanut shells that easily burn plant roots when they degrade in soil alone to make a product that helps correct the sitting position of our human beings.

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