Leipziger Straße 54April 16, 2026 – February 22, 2027
Panel 1: House as a factory of oxygen and well-being.Catania, ITDecember 16, 2022; 04:00 pm
Leipziger Straße 54April 16, 2026 – February 22, 2027
Panel 1: House as a factory of oxygen and well-being.Catania, ITDecember 16, 2022; 04:00 pm
VIVIAN TAMM
VIVIAN TAMM
My work explores how integrating the spatial and temporal principles of living systems into our built environments can afford more synergetic relationships between human and planitary needs.
I have explored this question across scales and contexts, from internationally exhibited and award-winning architectural research to biomaterial and product development with the LignoLight research group, and façade engineering at Priedemann Façade Lab.
I hold a B.A. from the Weißensee Academy of Art and Design Berlin, where I graduated with highest honours, receiving the Mart Stam graduation award and the EXIST Women scholarship. Currently based between Berlin, Delft and Atlanta, I am pursuing an M.Sc. in Industrial Design Engineering jointly at TU Delft and Georgia Tech, as an Honours student and DAAD scholarship holder.
I have explored this question across scales and contexts, from internationally exhibited and award-winning architectural research to biomaterial and product development with the LignoLight research group, and façade engineering at Priedemann Façade Lab.
I hold a B.A. from the Weißensee Academy of Art and Design Berlin, where I graduated with highest honours, receiving the Mart Stam graduation award and the EXIST Women scholarship. Currently based between Berlin, Delft and Atlanta, I am pursuing an M.Sc. in Industrial Design Engineering jointly at TU Delft and Georgia Tech, as an Honours student and DAAD scholarship holder.
Material research, 4D printing
Group/Solo studio project
TU Delft/Georgia Tech
From transformation
to mechanical performance
Various interactive systems, including electro-mechanical interfaces, ergonomic supports, and robotic grippers, combine rigid and flexible zones to provide localized compliance. While traditionally, this requires multi-part assemblies, this research explores 4D-printing as a strategy to unlock rigid-flexible monomaterial structures with variable stiffness. By printing compliant elements as flat layouts and actuating them in into 3D mechanisms using print-bed heat, interlayer boundaries and load path are aligned with anticipated bending forces. A parameterized design space enables altering geometric parameters to tune the components local stiffness. In preliminary tests on a compliant spring the 4D-printed parts achieved a threefold increase in flexural strength with crack-free ductile collapse compared to conventional 3D prints, while reducing both material consumption and overall fabrication time by one third.
CONTEXT
A group project at TU Delft’s Product Futures Studio (supervised by Prof. Katherine Song), exploring 4D printing. The concept and all content shown here are my contribution. Now continued as an independent study at Georgia Tech under Prof. Hyunjoo Oh.