Radibent examines adaptation strategies for a bio-based architecture. Designing for and with biopolymer composites, the project asks how a malleable materiality can be deployed for an adaptable architecture so as to engage and expand the cascading logic of circular design and ideate ways of enriching and extending architectural strategies of reuse, repair, refurbishment, recycling and recovery.

Radibent examines how the thermoplastic like behaviour of our biopolymer composites can be activated for an adaptable architecture. The biopolymer composite can therefore be melted and cooled multiple times without changing properties. By taking point of departure in the re-installation of the Radicant demonstrator we examine how single panels material can be reformed through the strategic introduction of heat and humidity. Single panels are wetted and heated and reformed in a mould. This allows the geometric adaptation of the structure to fit novel installation sites. In this way the malleability of the material system is deployed as a cascading strategy for circular design.