Over at Fast Company, our pal Chris Arkenberg wrote about how
advances in synthetic biology and biomimicry could someday transform how
we build our built environments:
Innovations emerging across the disciplines of additive manufacturing,
synthetic biology, swarm robotics, and architecture suggest a future
scenario when buildings may be designed using libraries of biological
templates and constructed with biosynthetic materials able to sense and
adapt to their conditions. Construction itself may be handled by
bacterial printers and swarms of mechanical assemblers.
Tools like Project Cyborg make possible a deeper exploration of
biomimicry through the precise manipulation of matter. David Benjamin
and his Columbia Living Architecture Lab explore ways to integrate
biology into architecture. Their recent work investigates bacterial
manufacturing--the genetic modification of bacteria to create durable
materials. Envisioning a future where bacterial colonies are designed to
print novel materials at scale, they see buildings wrapped in seamless,
responsive, bio-electronic envelopes.
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