CHIPURO,
field's guardian
IUAV University of Venice
Bachelor Thesis
Commission: Marco Zito, Alberto Bassi, Francesco Messina
χηπουρός
Chipuro is a project born with the intention of proposing a new destination to landed ownerships, disused or abandoned, present in the territory of Puglia, in southern Italy.
thats project is inspired by small huts, better known as lamie or pajare of prehistoric origin, widespread in the countryside of the region.
These were used by land owners as warehouses for storing work tools or agricultural products such as wheat and timber.
lamie: a formal synthesis of countryman's know-how.
to date, these constructions summarize apulian's countryman thinking in their form, linked to economy and simplicity's concepts. These and other elements demonstrate smart design choices.
3D printing with Crane Wasp®
the technique used for the realization of Chipuro project is that of large 3D printing. An
increasingly
autonomous technology projected towards the future, as much as, about its language, rooted in archetypes of
the past, just like lamie.
The additive technique becomes an industrial process able to leading
to new scenarios, using a new production chain, focused on the processes digitalization.
five printable forms to enclose the current countryman way.
with Chipuro the end user takes an arbitrary position to organize their space according to their
tastes.
In fact, the modules inside the structure can be configured and printed at the same time as the
external structure.
water reservoir
in a region with few water resources, the recovery of rainwater is a practice that the centuries have never removed.
The extrusion material printed from the Crane Wasp, is an excellent waterproofing agent for the additives that compose it.
