Meet KU-10: Azote. The KU-10 is a vessel optimized for lyophilization, also known as freeze drying, as a method of preserving food while also enhancing the food's taste and sweetness. KU-10 creates its own liquid nitrogen by extracting nitrogen from the air and compressing it to remove residual moisture. Any food placed inside is then frozen with liquid nitrogen and pressurized. This pressure causes the ice to instantly sublimate, turning from a solid state directly into vapor.
Our goal with these devices is to bring new life to old technology, as demonstrated by KU-10. Its functionality is inspired by traditional preservation practices which often utilize drying or fermentation in large clay vessels. With a technological tune up, KU-10 honors these old preservation practices by keeping a ceramic body that integrates space-age methods of freeze drying to the timeless practice of food preservation.
The Kintsugi Upgrades project imagines an alternate future where ancient artifacts are discovered by a more advanced civilization than us who rebuild and augment them with enhanced technologies.
The ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi – which literally translates to “join with gold” – perfectly embodied the spirit of these objects. Through the process of repair and reconstruction, we imagined these objects being even more valuable than the original.
This project began when we came across high quality 3D models of ancient cultural artifacts that had been scanned by internationally recognised museums. We digitally shattered the artifacts and then began reassembling them with new features and components that at we thought might be the type of technology a more advanced society might have.
KU-10: Azote
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KU-10: Azote
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Meet KU-10: Azote. The KU-10 is a vessel optimized for lyophilization, also known as freeze drying, as a method of preserving food while also enhancing the food's taste and sweetness. KU-10 creates its own liquid nitrogen by extracting nitrogen from the air and compressing it to remove residual moisture. Any food placed inside is then frozen with liquid nitrogen and pressurized. This pressure causes the ice to instantly sublimate, turning from a solid state directly into vapor.
Our goal with these devices is to bring new life to old technology, as demonstrated by KU-10. Its functionality is inspired by traditional preservation practices which often utilize drying or fermentation in large clay vessels. With a technological tune up, KU-10 honors these old preservation practices by keeping a ceramic body that integrates space-age methods of freeze drying to the timeless practice of food preservation.
The Kintsugi Upgrades project imagines an alternate future where ancient artifacts are discovered by a more advanced civilization than us who rebuild and augment them with enhanced technologies.
The ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi – which literally translates to “join with gold” – perfectly embodied the spirit of these objects. Through the process of repair and reconstruction, we imagined these objects being even more valuable than the original.
This project began when we came across high quality 3D models of ancient cultural artifacts that had been scanned by internationally recognised museums. We digitally shattered the artifacts and then began reassembling them with new features and components that at we thought might be the type of technology a more advanced society might have.