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Probiotic Structures

This critical practice submission describes the design approach developed towards creating a probiotic architectural prototype which serves as a microbiodiversity enhancing intervention for urban environments. The materials used are designed to be embedded with and support the growth of beneficial microorganisms offering an interface for healthy microbial exposures and entanglements between the human and the building. The research explores a novel multi layered, robotic extrusion approach on to curved surfaces to create spatial building elements viable as an industrial process.

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Contributors

R.P. Beckett
S.P. Nair
Incremental3D

The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
United Kingdom

Presented at ICSA2022, Aalborg University. Critical Practices 2022 booklet (PDF)