Arthur Mamou-Mani, Lecturer on the Master of Architecture (MArch) (RIBA Pt II) course, has created an interactive installation called ‘Aurora’ which is set to be unveiled as part of the ‘Design for Life’ programme in the Design Museum.
The Design Museum features contemporary designs from artists focusing on fashion, architecture, furniture, graphic, product and digital design.
It’s ‘Design for Life’ programme is an approach and process that makes regeneration a requirement of every project, having most recently been initiated two years ago as an experimental research project.
‘Aurora’ was designed by Professor Mamou-Mani to coincide with the COP26 Climate Change Conference of the Parties this October which brings together world leaders to discuss how to tackle the climate crisis. The interactive installation was made to signal the beginning of an inclusive and environmentally conscious approach towards sustainability.
The project demonstrates the principles of circular architecture using material that can be bio-sourced, 3D-printed, crushed, reprinted, and is industrially biodegradable. It also signals the end of the take-make-waste era and the dawn of built environments conceived for regeneration.
With 'Aurora', visitors will be able to see modules being crushed, melted and reformed, demonstrating the continuous process of regeneration.
'Aurora' was virtually designed using Dassault Systémes, a collaborative 3D virtual environment that allows the imagination of sustainable innovations, which also supports decision-making from the molecular level to end-of-life. The platform creates a virtual twin experience, which are scientifically accurate simulations of objects in their contexts.
The project creates sustainable innovations that bring together product, nature and life.
Commenting on his interactive installation, Professor Mamou-Mani said: “Aurora celebrates a new dawn in the wake of the worldwide trauma of the global pandemic. As designers, architects and engineers, we can now come together to create shared experiences, rather than fixed projects, empowering people with the means of both production and creativity.”
He added: “It's crucial that designers start thinking beyond the time frame of their projects, where the material came from, where it is going, how it can be reconfigured... the entire lifecycle needs to be taken into consideration. Aurora demonstrates that this is possible today, if only we adjust our thinking.”
Professor Mamou-Mani is a French architect, and director of the award-winning architecture practice Mamou-Mani, specialising in a new kind of digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He is also a lecturer at Westminster and has given numerous talks around the world on ‘Eco-Parametric’ architectural practice, including two TedX conferences in the U.S. and France.
Find out more about ‘Aurora’ on the Design Museum website.
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