Recipes for 3D Printing Biomaterials
2026

This studio began with the Hand and Machine Lab’s open-source Biomaterial Cookbook for 3D Printing:

handandmachine.org/index.php/2024/10/15/biomaterial-cookbook-for-3d-printing/

In that same spirit, the cookbook of recipes developed during the studio can be downloaded here.

Cookbook
Exhibition Portfolio                                                                      

INSTRUCTOR
Shelby Elizabeth Doyle, AIA LEED AP
Associate Professor of Architecture

DESIGN AND FABRICATION
DSNS 5460 is an interdisciplinary design studio in the ISU College of Design and students from two departments, and three-degree programs collaborated to design and construct the work shown here. This course focused on designing and 3D printing with biomaterials materials which are derived from biological sources and can biodegrade when disposed of in the environment. Students focused on transforming everyday waste in 3D printing recipes. Then designed and constructed an exhibit to share this work with the public.

Bachelor of Architecture: Preston Andersen, Nathan Farland, Aiden Hodge, Layne Klose, Julia Skoczen, Kyle Swearingen, Piper Wendling  Master of Architecture: Marzieh Janbazi, Timothy Onyango Ochola  Bachelor of Landscape Architecture: Nolan Hebner

 
THANK YOU
Many people made this project possible through generously sharing their time and expertise. Especially thank you to the Hand and Machine Lab at the University of New Mexico for hosting a 2-day workshop (handandmachine.org). Their website has an amazing collection of resources for 3D printing with paste based materials / biomaterials including publications and custom slicers such as Weave Slicer and Travel Slicer for Rhino / Grasshopper.

Thank you Leah Buechley, Jaime Gould, Louis Jencka and former post-doc Fiona Bell who is now at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she founded the Entangled Ecologies Lab (entangledecologieslab.org).

Thank you to Main Street Cafe and Bakery for donating their eggshells to the studio for use in the 3D prints. Thank you to the ISU College of Design and ISU Department of Architecture for financial support. Thank you also to design shop manager Jeremy Thurlby, lab manager Dayon Roster and the ISU Department of Architecture and College of Design staff. This studio would not have been possible without the support of ISU Transportation Services and ISU Central Receiving.


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