Metropolis Magazine’s Next Generation Design Competition has announced their winner for 2011: A scientist that claims to have devised a system to build bricks using bacteria, sand and one commonly found not so convential ingredient: urine.
German firm Sauerbruch Hutton have designed a responsive skin system that breathes like the skin of some organisms, adapting to its immediate environment to act more efficiently.
The Building Centre is hosting an Adaptive Architecture conference March 3rd to 5th. The Line Up is very impressive. Visit the Official Website for more information.
[ted id=1064] Interesting project suggesting to rebuild the New York Harbor’s ecology with introducing artificial reefs harvesting oysters. Project website here.
Vincent Callebaut has designed a proposal for the crisis stricken nation of Haiti in the form of a carbon neutral Utopian village inspired by coral. The project, entitled Coral Reef, would be made of modular units stacked on top of …
[ted id=1072] Michael Pawlyn, the director at Exploration Architecture recently informed us of his TED speech on biomimicry applied to architecture. Great video, a must watch. We posted about the Eden Project he was involved with many months ago, a …
Voronoi Morphologies is the latest development in an ongoing area of research into cellular aggregate structures by Matsys Design. The voronoi algorithm is used in a wide range of fields including satellite navigation, animal habitat mapping, and urban planning as …
The AA is acting as a visiting school to the California College of the Arts this summer with a intense summer studio entitled Biodynamic Structures Workshop. More information about the application process below
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18Z3UnnS_0&feature=player_embedded#at=18] Teams of quadrotors autonomously build tower-like cubic structures from laid out modular parts. The project is by Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay Kumar at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Similar ideas are being researched on a much …
The University of Dammam in Saudi Arabia is hosting a conference entitled “Sustainability Through Biomimicry” at their main campus next November. They are currently looking for submissions and their themes and topics seem very interesting. You can visit the conference …
