Bioprotopia: Designing the Built Environment with Living Organisms
- Basel Birkhauser 2023
- 188p.
Bioprotopia: Reimagining the Lived Environment 10, 1. Growing Space, Growing Discourse: Development a Language for Biological Architecture p.14, 1.1 Building Practice: looking Beyond ‘Net Zero to Regenerative Architecture p.18, 1.2 Emerging Concepts in Biological Architecture p.34, 1.3 Kind Matters: Ethical Approaches to Architectural Research p.46, 2. Macro Architectures: Biotechnological Prototypes at the Building Scale p.56, 2.1 Hi-tech / Low-tech / Bio-tech: Crafting the Bioknit Prototype p.60, 2.2 Bacterial Cellulose: Growing a Kombucha Shingled Facade p.76, 2.3 Biocellular Concrete Facade: Storing Waste and Abdorbing Carbon Dioxide p.90, 2.4 Healing Masonry: Demonstrating the Potential of Biological Self healing for Building Conservation p.102, 2.5 BioMateriOME: Monitoring and Perception of Microbe material Interactions p.116, 2.6 Towards a Self-sustaining Home: Circular Flows of Materials and Energy in the Domestic Environment p.130, 3.Micro Assemblies: Benchtop Biotechnological Prototypes p.146, 3.1 Bacterial Sculpting: Customising Biofabrication Techniques for Biomineralisation p.150, 3.2 Bacterial Hygrowmorphs: Harnessing Moisture sensitive Biodynamics into Responsive Smart Materials p.156, 3.3 Photosynthetic Biocomposites: Living Microalgae in Minimal Moisture Environments p.162, 3.4 Designing Mushrooms: Designing a Living Material Through Bio digital Fabrication p.170, 3.5 Tiny Urban Bio Reactor: Transforming Domestic Waste p.176, Conclusion: Branching Out p.180, Glossary p.4, Biographies p.184, Acknowledgements p.187, Colophon p.188