LigaPrint explores a novel approach to concrete fabrication by applying 3D freeform liquid printing techniques towards environmentally driven biospatial configurations. Material-led investigations were explored in tandem with robotic extrusion techniques to produce freeform, semi-structural components that are extremely fast to manufacture with no limitations to variability. The printed material was developed to exhibit a low pH and porous surface in order to support the growth of algae and mosses on its surface, while the latticed geometries support the growth of climbing plants. To achieve this, toolpath-driven computational techniques were developed in relation to the fabrication process. The fabrication process was in turn driven by site-specific environmental simulations to produce density differentiation relating to thermal comfort, visibility, privacy, and microbiological diversity. Process and assemblages were explored through new approaches to creating healthy workplaces whereby environmental exposures are prioritised over fixed spatial provision.

This project looks to new ways to increase green biodiversity in cities and buildings and explores this through a new approach to healthy communal workspaces that are analogous to living or working within a forest, but in the urban environment. The architecture rejects modernist approaches which separate nature from the building, creating usable, diverse spaces between indoor space and the outside environment. The layout brings nature into the architecture and encourages walking between different areas of the building to resist indoor, sedentary working habits.