Hose Pillar, a 3D printed ceramic brick.
DESIGN: Fania Kolaiti
Greece
make me! 2023
Special make me! Design Award and a cash prize of PLN 5.000
“Hose Pillar” is a ceramic 3D printed brick made of terracotta clay from Czerwona Woda village in Poland. The project suggests a solution for hot, dry climates and crucial heat waves by replacing high energy performance air-conditioning with ceramic cooling brick walls. The structure of the 3D printed brick obtains narrow corridors which compress the incoming ambient air and release it cooler in the interiors, yard sites or terraces of a building. This is a mimicry of an air-condition device while the design objective is to consume no energy to lower temperature, to minimize CO2 footprint and evoke for a greener performance dwelling. It is inspired by the widely spread architectural Roman brick with a ratio of 1:2:4.
Hose Pillar represents a new generation of bricks for sustainable housing using paste extrusion 3D printing and local materials as raw clay. The expected goal is to emphasize ceramic 3D printing in architecture and revolutionize the future construction industry.
Hose Pillar, a 3D printed ceramic brick., design: Fania Kolaiti / from designer’s archive
Hose Pillar, a 3D printed ceramic brick., design: Fania Kolaiti / from designer’s archive
Hose Pillar, a 3D printed ceramic brick., design: Fania Kolaiti / from designer’s archive
Hose Pillar, a 3D printed ceramic brick., design: Fania Kolaiti / from designer’s archive
Fania Kolaiti
An interdisciplinary artist from Greece and a PhD candidate at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. She is a ceramic designer and her creativity applies to sculpture and emerging objects. Currently, she is exploring the area of digitalization in ceramics and 3D printing applications.
Her artistic motives are framed by accelerationist aesthetics with a content that comments the existence during dystopian times. She creates hybrid objects which are characterized by fluidity between artistic and functional values. She find inspiration in future scenarios of post-humanism, bioethics, organic forms, anti-bodies and the state beyond capitalism.
Her academic background contains Bachelor and Master in Fine Arts with direction in Ceramics, Scenography and Costumes and Art Therapy. She has participated in group exhibitions in Europe and she is represented by galleries in Greece and Poland.
