Bioprotopia : : Designing the Built Environment with Living Organisms / / ed. by Ben Bridgens, Louise Mackenzie, Ruth Morrow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Agraviador, Armand,; Aljannat, Mahab,; Allan, John,; Arnardottir, Thora,; Birch, Emily,; Black, Gary,; Bloch, Karolina,; Bommareddy, Rajesh,; Bridgens, Ben,; Crawford, Assia,; Dade-Robertson, Martyn,; Delgado-Corrales, Beatriz,; Doherty, Rory,; Elsacker, Elise,; Gilligan, Elizabeth,; Gilmour, Katie,; Hoenerloh, Aileen,; James, Paul,; Kaiser, Romy,; Kalathil, Shafeer,; Mackenzie, Louise,; McLeod-Brown, Pippa,; Modi, Kaajal,; Morrow, Ruth,; Mwebaza, Derrick,; Nanukuttan, Sree,; Nerlich, Paula,; Ozkan, Dilan,; Perry, Oliver,; Rawes, Peg,; Scott, Jane,; Sherry, Angela,; Theodoridou, Magdalini,; Topcu, Ahmet,; Zhang, Meng,
• HerausgeberIn: Bridgens, Ben,; Mackenzie, Louise,; Morrow, Ruth ,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)

Designing with living materials: thoughts on the paradigm shift and an overview of the state of research What is “Bioprotopia”? It is a vision of a world with buildings that grow, self-heal and create virtuous cycles where waste from one process feeds another. A vision where the spaces that we inhab...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Glossary
• Contents
• Bioprotopia. Reimagining the Lived Environment
• 1
• 1 Growing Space, Growing Discourse
• 1.1 Building Practice
• 1.2 Emerging Concepts in Biological Architecture
• 1.3 Kind Matters
• 2
• 2 MacroArchitectures
• 2.1 Hi-tech / Low-tech / Bio-tech
• 2.2 Bacterial Cellulose
• 2.3 Biocellular Concrete Façade
• 2.4 Healing Masonry
• 2.5 BioMateriOME
• 2.6 Towards a Self-sustaining Home
• 3
• 3 MicroAssemblies
• 3.1 Bacterial Sculpting
• 3.2 Figure 1 Investigations into folding and self-assembly Bacterial Hygromorphs
• 3.3 Photosynthetic Biocomposites
• 3.4 Designing Mushrooms
• 3.5 Tiny Urban BioReactor
• Conclusion
• Biographies
• Acknowledgements
• Colophon