Testing both top down mould casting method (left) and bottom up natural casting, digital reconstruction and robotic milling (right) of meso-scale samples.

Large 1:1 scale architectural panel of size 60cm x 30cm grown within a span of eight weeks. This material presents the possibility of creating regenerative, biomineralised, carbon negative architecture.

Through physical material studies and explorations on the virtual realm of simulation, pneumatic extrusion brings to life designs of dynamic, bio-hybrid, semi-living structures.

Material interlace - here the consecutive layers are comprised of different materials (right, middle) leading to multiple transparency levels across the final structure (left).

Light and shadow interplay – the exoskeleton filters light in a variety of ways, and thus generates different conditions for the underlying photosynthetic, living cells.

Our system generates automated but not identical outputs. We can now predict but not predetermine. Integrated into the ELM block, the final piece is growing, is adapting and is regenerating itself constantly.

We assigned the system with material identities by extracting the texture data of various materials. Then tested both PBR and procedural material visualisation to translate bio-materiality into architectural quality.

We developed a novel process to identify the most suitable area for the site intervention by simulating the surface-run off and calculating the erosion derivative.