Here are three inspirational features and processes I would love to use on my future work:
1. I am interested in designing furniture. The composition of bones seems like a structure that would be worth mimicking in supporting elements of a table or chair. Both the way the bones are layered and the structural/chemical composition of the porous/spongy part of the bone, which consists of a unique mix of inorganic crystals and fibres.
2. Structure of interwoven trees. I would like to utilize this idea by weaving several strands of slightly flexible material into a structural part of a chair or similar, that also is able to withstand torsional forces, due to the elasticity of the individual strand.
3. Tendons and bones form seamless attachments by using the same materials for both but gradually changing the formulation or mineral content. I would like to use this with a polymer to create a dual-durometer component, that gives me several advantages (i.e soft attachment points at the ends and rigid structural core in the middle) by gradually changing the formulation of the ingredients, but maintaining that it is the same material, and thereby being able to re-melt and re-use all of the part at a later stage.