As part of the Design Field Notes series, Berkeley architecture associate professor M. Paz Gutierrez joined Jacobs Hall for its annual Fall Talks. In her talk, she shared her genre-bending projects, which often draw from nature for inspiration and materials. Explaining that she sees structures as living laboratories, she went behind the scenes of projects that exemplify this viewpoint — such as a project in which she has studied bamboo-based craft practices in the Amazon and worked with communities to translate these practices into 3D printing processes, experimenting with materials like palm powders and bamboo/PLA filament mixes that might preserve ecological and cultural benefits while remaining cost-effective.
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