Silk Pavilion:

Oxman, Neri; Laucks, Jared; Kayser, Markus; Duro-Royo, Jorge; Uribe, Carlos Gonzales

doi:10.2307/j.ctt1tp3c5w.34

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“…Termitomyces Bed is a speculative manual for growing furniture the way termites grow timber-based habitats. Inspired by the Silk Pavilion and other works by Neri Oxman [40], Ashten explores the relationship between the built, natural, and biological environments. "This came from my interest in animal architecture and how insects such as termites build with more advanced structures than our own based on instinct and collective effort," she explains.…”

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Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Silkworms are guided by density in the scaffold, while honeybees are guided by voids. In the Silk Pavilion project by Oxman et al [183,184], shown in figure 3 b , a domed room-sized scaffold forms the substrate for silkworms to deposit their threads. The scaffold comprises frame modules, each of which is prefabricated and robotically wound with a sparse pattern of silk threads.…”

Section: Hybridizing Buildings and Biologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In both of these examples, the mechanical scaffold must be structurally sufficient to support the load of the biologically placed material. In the case of the [183,184] Silk Pavilion , the fibres placed by the silkworms are not self-supporting and cannot serve a structural role on their own. In the case of the [185] Co-occupied Boundaries , the honeybee comb is self-supporting once formed, although it requires a scaffold for initial placement.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Constructing living buildings: a review of relevant technologies for a novel application of biohybrid robotics

Heinrich

Mammen

Hofstadler

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J. R. Soc. Interface.

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Biohybrid robotics takes an engineering approach to the expansion and exploitation of biological behaviours for application to automated tasks. Here, we identify the construction of living buildings and infrastructure as a high-potential application domain for biohybrid robotics, and review technological advances relevant to its future development. Construction, civil infrastructure maintenance and building occupancy in the last decades have comprised a major portion of economic production, energy consumption and carbon emissions. Integrating biological organisms into automated construction tasks and permanent building components therefore has high potential for impact. Live materials can provide several advantages over standard synthetic construction materials, including self-repair of damage, increase rather than degradation of structural performance over time, resilience to corrosive environments, support of biodiversity, and mitigation of urban heat islands. Here, we review relevant technologies, which are currently disparate. They span robotics, self-organizing systems, artificial life, construction automation, structural engineering, architecture, bioengineering, biomaterials, and molecular and cellular biology. In these disciplines, developments relevant to biohybrid construction and living buildings are in the early stages, and typically are not exchanged between disciplines. We, therefore, consider this review useful to the future development of biohybrid engineering for this highly interdisciplinary application.

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“…More complex forms emerge because of the interaction of these biological and environmental factors. In the case of the Silkworm Pavilion-II project by Oxman et al, they guide silkworms to cover the woven surface of the pavilion [ 13 ]. The distribution of the silkworms was controlled by heat, gravity, and light as variables.…”

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Are Mushrooms Parametric?

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Designing with biological materials as a burgeoning approach in the architecture field requires the development of new design strategies and fabrication methods. In this paper, we question if designers can use a parametric design approach while working with living materials. The research uses fungi as a biomaterial probe to experiment with the parametric behavior of living systems. Running design experiments using fungi helps to understand the extent to which biological systems can be considered parametric and, if so, what kind of parametric systems they are. Answering these questions provides a method to work with complex biological systems and may lead to new approaches of fabricating materials by tuning the environmental parameters of biological growth.

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