Biological Architecture-Biodesign Greenhouse emissions are causing tremendous negative impacts on the global ecosystem. Scientific predictions from diverse sources are highly alarming about the catastrophic effects of global warming in the next decades. One of the most critical aspects of the climate change is the fast destruction of the natural environments and the consequent reduction of […]
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Materials that can live and die
Planned Obsolescence One of the biggest source of our technological wastes comes from planned obsolescence, this picture is from a series of photographs from Chris Jordan called “Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption” [1]. He travelled around the USA to show people what happened with their discarded technology. The concept of planed obsolescence is used […]
Background At the beginning, our group want to use bioluminescent to create a wearable material cloth as a new fashion which can against the animal-fur. In the initial stage, we want to find a way to let people can interact with luminous Vibrio harveyi. And one of the design studios from the Netherlands have given us inspiration […]
We want to challenge the perception of bioluminescence and show that it’s applications extend beyond the context of renewable energy. A novel way to exploit bioluminescence is utilising it as a signaling tool that monitors blood glucose levels through sweat. This is achieved by DiaWatch. Diabetes and Blood Glucose Levels Monitoring blood glucose levels is […]
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Modular TreeHouses
The actual way of life, consumption, how and with what we build, transport systems, waste management, etc. all one thing in common, the contribution of environment pollution, mostly with the increase of the carbon footprint but there are other consequences such as heavy metal pollution, increase of diseases, plastic waste and loss of biodiversity among […]
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Treehouse – Week 5 Blog
When first deciding to commit to this project, we didn’t think challenges would arise before even starting. But it happens to be that finding a concise answer to the question of “why?” is not an easy task. Not because it is difficult to find a reason, but because of the complexity of crystallising the abstract […]
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Materials with a life-cycle
Algae bottle – Ari Jónsson, 2016 Pollution by ‘immortal’ materials Many materials produced nowadays, such as plastics, take hundreds of years to decompose, meaning even a mundane object such as a plastic bag will outlive its owner by multiple human lifetimes. This is contributing to the increasingly worsening issue of anthropogenic pollution [1] – we are leaving […]
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Why Create Living Architecture?
The power of living architecture Today’s urban architecture lacks environmentally friendly building materials. Popular materials such as concrete, stone and wood require vast amounts of energy to produce, and often require the complete eradication of natural ecosystems at construction sites. The concrete industry alone creates up to 5% of worldwide man-made carbon dioxide emissions […]
We always accidentally damage our cloth in our daily life. Usually people just throw it away and this creates a lot of waste. This is even more common in young children because they are energetic and love to playing and rolling around. Things also happened in undeveloped countries where people cannot afford for buying new […]
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Self repairing material – Blog 1
In 2016 over 300,000 tons of clothing were thrown into landfill in the UK alone (Smithers, 2017). The reasons why people throw out their clothes are many, from them being too small or damaged, to the colours fading. These issues could potentially be rectified if the clothes could repair, easily change shape, and have colours which […]
This past week our group has been researching what potential forms our project could take. We have started from the concept of edible architecture, and explored some of the possibilities contained in that vision. For a while now, I’ve been interested in the trend towards low footprint living. This concept is being pushed from multiple […]
Tree Houses. That’s the theme our team, (Big, David, Francisco and me) chose for this year’s Biodesign project course. The theme conjures up a variety of images… The tree house (built from wood and placed near trees but not actually in a tree) that my childhood neighbours had in their backyard. The “Treesort” in Oregon […]