Dr Rachel Armstrong, an architectural researcher from University College London, wants to transform buildings from being sterile, inert objects into entities that interact and evolve with the natural environment. She sees this as the fulfilment of what architects have always seen as the purpose of their work. “We’ve likened the city to an organism, but so far it has been a symbolic description. In the future, architecture will be literally alive,” she said.
“When dealing with climate change we don’t always have to invent something new, we have to think very cleverly about what we already have,” Armstrong said. “It doesn’t take a massive leap of imagination to envisage how much more useful the surfaces of our buildings could become if covered in bacteria that glow in the dark or remove pollutants from the atmosphere.”
MUCH more at link, very cool stuff!
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- DeliaTheArtist
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genius <3!
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- sugarlilly
- 29 days ago
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Awesome!
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pfft... that's no future.
Where's the flying cars, Jetpacks, Androids, lazer weapons... you know, the bare essentials for "being in the future"?
Seriously, we got lots to do before we start living the fututre.
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the biggest challenge isn't that we don't have the technology, but on a cost/benefit basis, the people who make decisions seem to only make choices based on the short term. and it's not even really because of just politicians, but because their constituents want things in their lifetimes. because people seem to have the mentality that if they fuck up, they'll be gone anyway.
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- agreeablestatistic
- 29 days ago
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The way the world is now & they way we treat each other
It seems like ah fantasy because if the cities will look like this then what will the people be like ?( if there are still people running things by the time stuff like this happens ) ! HUH ? -
silly people
there will be no future after 2012
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- JulianCommongold
- 28 days ago
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WTF! that's crazy cool! I just hope those bacteria could survive an earthquake and/or 2012! xD
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- AtomUniverse1
- 28 days ago
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I want to hear about the architect doing this now! No more time for daydreams, I demand to see the results in action!
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- Enstajlomn
- 28 days ago
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Architects created our overcrowded Monster Cities,
they will for sure not impact the Cleantech Society. The necessary cleantech and enegy know-how is missing. Why should we kill fish to light our cities, better eat the proteins, you will need them. Just a nice Computer picture. -
YEA YEA FUTURE
