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17-25 October 2026

Sustrato

Pineapple fiber Biomaterials

Hosted by Andrea De la Peña

This project is now archived and was part of DDW19

Sustrato is an experimental design project based in Mexico that makes use of soft and tough biomaterials from pineapple production wastes and applies them to the creation of furniture and decorative products.
Ciudad Isla, Veracruz is one of the most important pineapple-producing towns in Mexico. During the production process most of the leaves are separated from the fruit to satisfy all the height and quality requirements from each supermarket. Some of the le
Pineapple production
Pineapple production

About Andrea De la Peña

Andrea Michael is a mexican designer based in Mexico CIty. She has a technical degree in graphic design from Instituto Politécnico Nacional and studied industrial design at Centro University. She is showing her project Sustrato, a biomaterial experimentation, during DDW 2019.

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