Vol. 29 No. 1 (2025): BEYOND DECARBONIZATION toward a Climate Neutral urban environment
Research and Experimentation

Natural fibre sourcing for textile architecture

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  • Ilaria Pugliese,
  • Samica Sadik,
  • Alessandra Zanelli
Ilaria Pugliese
Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito, Politecnico di Milano, Italia
Samica Sadik
Department of Craft Studies, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Alessandra Zanelli
Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito, Politecnico di Milano, Italia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-16594

Published 2025-07-31

Keywords

  • Natural fibres,
  • Bast fibres,
  • Textile architecture,
  • Localized production,
  • Supply chain development

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Pugliese, I., Sadik, S., & Zanelli, A. (2025). Natural fibre sourcing for textile architecture. TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, 29(1), 289–298. https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-16594

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Abstract

Local resources can provide industrial production opportunities to improve processes while enhancing biodiversity and the use of raw materials. This research profiles currently underused bast plant fibres for environmentally sound textile applications in architecture – a sector heavily reliant on non-renewable resources – by comparing their technical properties and environmental impacts to support material selection. It also reconstructs production scenarios by evaluating fibre material typologies, their processability in textile-based building materials, and the existing fibre processing and textile manufacturing infrastructure.

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