Portfolio - CBRA

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Toward a design of

variation.

Comolli--Miramont Damien - Portfolio.

At the crossroads of diverse fields of interest - from natural sciences to algorithmic sciences, and including philosophy - my design practice seeks to explore and strengthen the relationships between object, subject, and their environments. As a computational designer, I develop works ranging from small-scale devices to micro-architectures. These creations emerge from the fertile interplay between digital tools and natural phenomena, embedded within broader ecosystemic logics.

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I thus imagine multi-voiced choreographies, where the living and the non-living engage in dialogue, where unique materials and emerging processes enter into symbiosis. As this portfolio shows, the result is a design of fluctuation, of things in motion: a sensitive and forward-looking vision, resonating with a world in constant transition.

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2022 - 2025

Sommaire

La Maison Commune de l'Alimentation

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Eco-metabolistic facade pannels

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Piiiiiiano

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R.W.K. strategy

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Envision discussion supports.

Repair through material behavior..

Mediation around meso-structured artificial muscles.

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Computational design for a wetland restoration strategy.

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La Maison Commune de l’Alimentation Envision dsicussion supports.

The Maison Commune de l'Alimentation is an initiative by the Solidarité Partage (ESP) association in Tournus, which is struggling to find its concrete forms. It would bring together the various activities of ESP, which works to ensure access to healthy food for all.

Production year : 2024.

Partnership ENSAD x ESP with the participation of Clara Vardon (objet design ENSAD).

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Le milieu dans lequel nous nous inscrivons invite à agir selon des logiques collaboratives et participatives. Nous sommes à l'écoute, dans l’organisation et la facilitation des opportunités présentes. Considérant la diversité des besoins évoqués, ainsi que l’incertitude concernant l'acquisition d'un site pour l'incarner, le projet s’est tourné vers sa forme organisationnelle et les atmosphères que ces espaces devaient inspirer.

Phasing.

Kickoff 1st Immersion 05-07.02.24 choice of the topic

Phase of researche 1 interviews, documentation

Phase of researche 2

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Programatic vision of the Maison de l'Alimentation - workshop 1.

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Embody the space, Picturing the atmospheres - workshop 2

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→ A facilitation tool for the collective design and definition of the program for ‘La Maison Commune de l’Alimentation’. It tangibly represents the activities and resources invested by ESP to guide, prioritize, and annotate during decision-making moments.

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The board set.

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Previsualisation of indoor athmospheres.

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A shared kitchen.

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A welcome room.

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A social room.

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Eco-metabolistic facade pannels.

The CITA - Center for Information Technology and Architecture research laboratory in Denmark develops materialization strategies for the fabrication of biodegradable architectures. The EMA - Eco-Metabolistic Architecture program explores the production of façade panels made from cotton fiber. The following workshop raises the question of how to restore them after they have aged over time.

Année de réalisation : 2023.

Workshop "UMA repair " , CITA , Danemark.

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Repair through material behaviors.

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Knowledge.

Rhinocéros

Grasshopper & Python

"Inflatable Soft Robotics" - MIT Media Lab.

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→ Curvature perpendicular to pattern direction.

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→ Taking advantage of the curvatures induced by the aging of bio-based elements, we can counterbalance or amplify the curvatures of the given panels.

Research through experimentation.

Materials :

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"repairing" slice

Wooden sawdust 3 mm

Supporting patches.

Water Bone glue

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0.5 mm

→ Different recepies from bone glue for evaluating thier sticking power on pannel samples.

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Coton fibre

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Compare simulation

Mesh highly acurate

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Digital world

Curvature analysis above aproximated surface & zoning

«Behavioural» pattern and morphing

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Physiqc world

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Acurate morphing above the mesh and generating tool path

Cleaning photogrametry Rhinocéros

Grasshopper & Python

Photogrametry

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Collaborate with machine.

Non-planar printing.

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Life cycle scenarios. l'armature d'un abris

Les panneaux biodégradables.

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Replace every new ones

Print the repair motif onto patches.

2 Weeks

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Repair 2

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Placing bio based patches 2 Weeks

itial State 1st print

Deterioration 1 2 Weeks

Repair 1 for flattening

panels by

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≈ Flat panels 1 Week

Deterioration 2

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2 for bending

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Piiiiiiano.

Mediation around meso-structured artifical muscles.

The EnsadLab at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (PSL) hosts, within the Reflective Interaction group led by Samuel Bianchini (HDR and artist), postdoctoral researcher and roboticist Félix Vannest from INRIA. He is developing a material with unusual physical properties.

My role is to redesign the material’s fabrication process to improve its reliability and robustness. In addition, I am designing a mediation device for several exhibitions (CCC, ICRA, RobotSoft).

Année de réalisation : 2025.

Collaboration avec l'EnsadLab.

Artificial muscle

3D printed meso-structured foam. the shape and distribution of the cells are programed into the matter so that the deformation of the balloon onside is specifically determined under pressure.

4D printed with

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→ Timelaps : repenser le processus de fabrication.

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IceSL

The keys are moving, rotating before hitting the shelf.

→ D émonstrate the range of posible movements.

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→ If people dectected around, a rythm is played.

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Discrete closing system.

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❶ P résenter.

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❷ Enclencher.

❸ Enfoncer.

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Startegy Computational design for a wetland restoration strategy.

Date de réalisation : 2025.

Avec la collaboration de Sebastien Gogo et Yanael Leroux.

RWK

● a data site-project

Strategy

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→ Peatlands are essential carbon sinks, capable of providing numerous ecosystem services. Their intensive exploitation since the 1950s has profoundly disrupted their balance, often irreversibly. Former mining sites are now becoming ponds, as in Normandy, where the characteristic pioneer vegetation can no longer re-establish itself. How can its return be facilitated?

To find out more, I followed a scientific team (Sébastien Gogo, Yanaël Leroux, and Arthur Fauviau) in the heart of the Cotentin and Bessin Regional Natural Park.

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Sébastien Gogo ← Physician spécialist.

Yanaël Leroux ← research asistant.

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Tourbière de Sèves, Normandie → Manche → Cotentin.

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→ Selection of NatureBased solutions to support climate change adaptation along a watershed.

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Situation

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2 Study case, The Sèves peatland : dynamics of a marshy territory.

«Peatlands represent 3% of the Earth’s surface but contain between 25% and 33% of the world’s soil carbon.»

Sébastien Gogo, CNRS.

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Sèves peatland from his geniune state to his nonreversible degradation.

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Peat and sphagnum moss : a key role in a revegatation strategy.

Dépôt par couches

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→L es sphaignes forment un tapis

végétal par leur tiges traçantes.

→I mmergée sous l'eau et par l'action

des micro-organismes, la tourbe ne se décompose pas mais crée du carbone.

Formation of a peatland initiated by the development of a floating raft.

Tramblant : phase intermédiaire en formation.

Dépôt organique grandissant.

Vue rapprochée d'une sphaigne, X10.

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Argiles, calcaire.

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Anticipating the morphological evolution of the submerged area.

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VIDEO

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Starter integration.

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→ The target areas are heavily degraded zones with gentle slopes on the periphery of basins. The starter is a large supporting structure that aids the progression of pioneer plants, serving as a temporary assist in a broader renaturation strategy adapted to the environment.

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RWK Stratégy

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Computational and mecatronic process.

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→T he presence of the flax industry, which is strongly established locally, represents a key resource. For shaping, I selected a mandrel-free filament winding process (Coreless Filament Winding), capable of producing lightweight and complex fibrous structures.

Recent research on this process relies on petrochemical matrices that are incompatible with the biodegradability requirements linked to the context. Identifying a neutral biopolymer with low sensitivity to water helps to partially overcome this limitation.

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VIDEO

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ZOOM IN →D ispositif d’enroulement sans mandrin en détail.

→ Parametric algorithm for multi-axes winding.

VIDEO

→ Experimentations from line to volume.

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Rhinocéros & Grasshopper

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A cell from a Starter.

Intégration d’un starter.

Les zones fortement dégradées, présentant une pente douce en périphérie de bassin, sont visées. Le starter est une grande structure accompagnatrice dans la progression des plantes pionnières, jouant ainsi un rôle d’aide temporaire dans une stratégie de renaturation plus globale, adaptée au milieu.

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Etat dégradé, 8 Juin 2025, 7 semaines plustard .

→ Before - after, integration in a weatland.

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Intégration en milieux tourbeux (Yvellines) - état initial, 13 avril 2025.

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