Sustainable use of bamboo in Design – Case study of sousplat prototypes produced with bamboo waste

Abstract

Scientific studies emerge in various areas of knowledge in the search for sustainable solutions to the conventional production processes, considering the analysis of the products life cycle. Bamboo can be considered a real sustainable source because it integrates the three pillars of sustainability: environmental, social and economic. This raw material is regarded as one of the largest renewable biomass, as a substitute for wood. The aim of this study was to develop a project and carry out production of the physical prototype of a kitchen utensil, the Sousplat, meeting the demand for products (more) sustainable and the need for new products with added design for Viverde Agroecological Association of Settlement Aimorés Garden, Bauru, SP. The methodological processes made themselves from product definition to be developed, then there was a literature review about the bamboo and its applicability and issues surrounding this subject, since aspects related to sustainability materials to life cycle of products produced from bamboo and its waste. The development process of the concept of Sousplat project began in the analysis of similar products and materials applied to these, as has also analyzing the structure of bamboo. Observing their structural morphological characteristics, their training and their cell arrangement, established a correlation between the shape of these cells and conventional Sousplat, while you set up the use of bamboo residue boards (bamboo cluster) and rings obtained from waste bamboo culms in nature as the ideal raw material. Obtained prototypes and delivered to Viverde along with the projects, scientific work reached an additional achievement with the use of residual stalks of bamboo rings fresh and waste for the production of Sousplat, reaffirming Viverde Association in the context of sustainability, a trend global and innovative. Re-use of bamboo in the form of waste, attenuates and can solve the problem of waste accumulation, in the shed of Viverde Association, resulting from the production of other objects bamboo base.

Keywords

• Design
• Sustentabilidade
• Inovação
• Bambu