XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book. At one extreme are massive public works, at the other, micro to nano-sized interventions that can have equally profound impacts on our world. From terraforming to bio-manufacturing, a whole new generation of designers is proposing unique ways of confronting the difficult challenges ahead. In this way design becomes a totality of relationships that affects all disciplines, which can no-longer be thought of as self-contained fields, each handled separately by narrowly focused specialists. Globalization demands a restructuring of the profession, as we know it. This requires a new breed of generalists who can work across fields and engage research on multiple sites around the globe. Today we need planetary designers versed in the craft of integral design.Our thesis is therefore both global and performative in scope. We need an architecture that is more than just a constellation of bio-picturesque images, digitally generated surface effects, and conventional materials. We seek a holistic architecture that uses the best techniques to connect directly with existing natural systems while creating a renewed ecology that can sustain itself well into the future. Along these lines, many of the projects featured in this book simply abandon the old tropes and construction processes of the past by creating numerous green alternatives that proliferate along unexpected pathways.

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Publisher

Actar

Year

2017

ISBN

9781638409151

Topic

Architecture

Subtopic

Sustainability in Architecture

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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Design for a Planet in Peril
Extraterritoriality Nexus
Weatherfield
Amagerforbraending Waste Treatment Plant
Clean
Future Venice
Aqualta
756S-1422w
Very Large Structure
CVO8
Dune City: A Transgressive Biomimetics
Lilypads
Heliofield, Land Art Generator Initiative
Ice Factory
Urbaneering Resilient Waterfront: Infrastructure as Spectacle
ARC Wildlife Bridge
Filenes Ecopods
Sky Condos
Halley VI: Antartic Research Station
Microcosmic Aquaculture: Gelatinous Orbs
Amphibious Architecture
The Anthropocene Folly
Fab Tree Hab and Plug-In Ecology
Strange Weather
Stripped-Down Villa
Ground Elemental
The Micro-Behavior of Multi-Agent Systems
Theater of Lost Species
Baubotanik: Living Plant Constructions
He Shot Me Down
Head in the Clouds Pavilion
Open-Source Ecology
Elevator B
Extrapolation Factory, Animal Superpowers
Bioreactors, Membranes, and Architecture
Hortus: Algae Farm
Radiant Soil
Branching Morphogenesis
Concrete Recycling Robot
Your Rotten Future Will Be Great
A Call for Citizen Biotech
Recycled Plastic Furniture
Up-Drop
Trash Track
Cascade Formations: Low Energy-High Complexity
Biomanufactured Brick
Construction Site Automation, Green Masonry and BIM
Glass Works
Solar Sintering
Rewilding with Synthetic biology
Semi-Living Victimless Utopia: Will We Ever Get There?
Molecular Self-Assembly
Bio City Map of 11 Billion: World Population in 2110
nBots: Sustaining Nano-Robotic Environments
Lydia Kallipoliti, Ecoredux: An Archival and Design Resource for Ecological Material Experiments
Jason Bellows, Mediterranean Be Dammed: The Story of Atlantropa
Steven Cassells, Interview
David Catling, The Terraforming of Ascension Island
AUDC/ Robert Sumrell plus Kazys Varnelis, Another Green World
Natalie Jeremijenko, Interview
Graham Burnett, A Mind in the Water
Jessica Green, The Indoor Microbial Forest
Anna Dyson, Beyond Sustainability: Identity Formation and Built Ecologies
Nina Tandon, Biology is Fabrication: Energy, Food, and the Third Industrial Revolution
Anil Netravali, Green Composites
Alex Felson and Jacob Dugopolski, Re-Wilding the Suburbs: Housing Taxonomy
Mitchell Joachim, Ten Archetypes of Nature in Design
Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Oikoiosis: A Guide to Adaptive Behavior
Biographies
About the Authors
Credits