Transcalar Design: An Approach to Biodesign in the Built Environment

Infrastructures

Dimitrios Floudas¹  David Andréen²  Ana Goidea² 

[1] Microbial Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden;bioDigital Matter, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden;

关键词: biodesign;    transcalar;    transdisciplinary;    architecture;    3D printing;    biomaterials;   

DOI  :  10.3390/infrastructures7040050

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Biodesign holds the potential for radically increasing the sustainability of the built environment and our material culture but comes with new challenges. One of these is the bridging of the vast differences of scale between microbiological processes and architecture. We propose that a transcalar design approach, which weaves together nonlinear dependencies using computational design tools and design methodologies through the biological generation of architectural components, is a way towards successful design implementations. Such design processes were explored in a laboratory-based fabrication and study of a column element. This column, named Protomycokion, serves to illustrate how design methodologies, particularly through the use of a demonstrator artefact, can serve to navigate the multiple scales, disciplines, and experiments that are necessary to engage the complexities of biodesign. Transcalar design processes embrace the adaptability, variability and interdependence of biological organisms and show possible gains with regard to material sustainability and increased performativity.

【 授权许可】

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