Photosynthetic textile biocomposites: Using laboratory testing and digital fabrication to develop flexible living building materials
May 20, 2021
Rhythmic Buildings – a framework for sustainable adaptable architecture
June 24, 2021
Martyn Dade-Robertson, Monika Brandic Lipinska, Ahmet Topcu (PGR) ,Thora Arnardottir, Meng Zhang, Dilan Ozkan (PGR) Sunbin Lee and Emily Birch are at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion Sezione del Padiglione Italia. Curated by Tom Kovac, RMIT University and Alessandro Melis, University of Portsmouth titled Cityx Venice responds to ‘How will we live together?’ curated by Hashim Sarkis, MIT & organized by La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition is open until the 21st of November.
The video: entitled Can we grow a city? explores some of the work of the Living Construction theme in the HBBE.
Buildings make use of materials provided to us by nature but usually after the organism that created them has died. Nature, however, offers a wide range of fabrication strategies creating materials of complexity with little energy input and efficient use of resources. Our video explores methods for harnessing growth of microorganisms at a range of scales from the gene to buildings, developing new fabrication strategies and biological materials including materials that are made of living cells; materials which are made by living cells; materials that are induced changes to the cells environment and materials which are made active by the incorporation of living cells.
