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Design with life : biotech architecture and resilient cities
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ISBN: 9781948765206 1948765209 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York Acta publishers

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In the challenging context of accelerating climate dynamics, the core discipline of architectural design is evolving and embracing new forms of action. New York-based nonprofit Terreform ONE has established a distinctive design tactic that investigates projects through the regenerative use of natural materials, science, and the emergent field of socio-ecological design. This kind of design approach uses actual living matter (not abstracted imitations of nature) to create new functional elements and spaces. These future-based actions are not only grounded in social justice, but are also far-reaching in their application of digital manufacturing and maker culture. Terreform ONE tackles urgent environmental and urban social concerns through the integrated use of living materials and organisms.Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, founders of Terreform ONE, describe their practice through various projects and prolific research that has made significant impact to what is increasingly recognized as socio-ecological design. Together they achieve an abundant collection of projects that validate these unique experimental methods, including the Monarch Sanctuary, a new urban building type to protect butterflies from extinction; Cricket Shelter and Farm, a series of modular volumes for harvesting alternate forms of insect protein; and biodegradable structures called Mycoform that invokes principles of synthetic biology to prototype 100% compostable furniture. Design with Life documents this growing body of work and outlines an original direction for a changing discipline, reviewing concepts at a range of scales for metropolitan areas. In an age where speed is everything, Terreform ONE reveals how future architecture and urban design practices can cultivate biological processes and create resilient answers to tomorrow’s wicked problems.


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LAVA Laboratory for Visionary Architecture

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Monografie mit Fragestellung Was wäre, wenn Forschung, Wissenschaft und Architektur verschmelzen? LAVA ist ein von Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse und Alexander Rieck gegründetes Architekturbüro mit Standorten in Deutschland, Vietnam und Australien. Der für die Expo 20 entworfene Deutsche Pavillon ist ein Beispiel für die Eloquenz, mit der LAVA auf die Fragen der Zeit reagiert. Die 3 Kernthemen des Buches – Stadt der Zukunft, Biodiversität, Energie und Nachhaltigkeit – werden um die Disziplinen „Connecting Minds“, gemeint ist soziale und politische Architektur, „Digitale Prozesse und Technologien“ und „New Work“ ergänzt und innerhalb dieses Buches in 6 Kapiteln erforscht. Neben Projekten und deren Herleitung führen Denker:innen aus Architektur und Gesellschaft ihre Positionen in diesen Gebieten weiter aus – kreativ, spekulativ und nachdenklich. Themenfelder: City – Energy – Biodiversity – Connecting – Work – Digital Processes Ausgewählte Projekte als Case Studies Texte u. a. von Amy Frearson, Georg Vrachliotis, Giovanna Carnevali, Maria Aiolova, Gilles Retsin, André Wilkens, Marjan Colletti und Raoul Bunschoten Monograph questioning What if research, science and architecture were merged? LAVA is an architecture studio founded by Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, and Alexander Rieck with offices in Germany, Vietnam, and Australia. The German Pavilion for Expo 20 is an example of the eloquence with which LAVA responds to issues of the day. The three core themes of the book – Cities of the Future, Biodiversity, as well as Energy and Sustainability – are complemented by the subjects “Connecting Minds,” meaning social and political architecture, “Digital Processes and Technologies,” and “New Work” and explored together throughout the six chapters of this book. In addition to projects and their derivation, architectural and sociological thinkers elaborate on their ideas on these topics – creatively, speculatively, and thoughtfully. Themes: City – Energy – Biodiversity – Connecting – Work – Digital Processes Selected projects as case studies With contributions by Amy Frearson, Georg Vrachliotis, Giovanna Carnevali, Maria Aiolova, Gilles Retsin, André Wilkens, Marjan Colletti, and Raoul Bunschoten

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