The CARBON FIBER DESIGN CONTEST aims to raise awareness among architects, designers and engineers towards the use of carbon fibers in new areas of application compared to traditional ones, by exploiting and enhancing the technical features of the material: mechanical strength, weight and moldability. The competition is open to the field of product design (internal and external) and aims to stimulate the research of new forms considered as the typical expression of this material on the one hand and on the other to promote the search for innovation in the use of carbon fiber thanks to its peculiarities.
The contest is sponsored by Olympus-FRP, specialized in composite materials, carbon fibers and new technologies for engineering and architecture, together with NCD Architects and deZign Studio and with the support of the ADI – Association for Industrial Design, University of Naples “Federico II” and Confartigianato, as an opportunity to carry out researches on the material and to identify some innovative uses.