BioModul8 is a modular DIY agriculture system for aquaponics — a combination of hydroponics (or water-based planting) and aquaculture (fish cultivation) that is sustainable and aesthetic in form and function – meeting the growing demand for healthy, sustainable food.
In the future, machines will be grown on trees. Then they will eat us for eating them. After the cost of energy had made global shipping of raw materials and packaged goods unimaginable, only the rich could afford traditional, mass-produced commodities.Synthetic biology enabled us to harness our natural environment for the production of things. Coded into the DNA of a plant, product parts grow within the supporting system of the plant’s structure. When fully developed, they are stripped like a walnut from its shell or corn from its husk, ready for assembly.Shops have evolved into factory farms as licensed products are grown where sold. Large items take time to grow and are more expensive while small ones are more affordable. The postal service delivers lightweight seed-packets for domestic manufacturers.Using biology for the production of consumer goods has reversed the idea of industrial standards, introducing diversity and softness into a realm that once was dominated by heavy manufacturing. The product shown here is the Herbicide Sprayer, an essential commodity used to protect delicate engineered horticultural machines from older nature.
Amorphous Anemones
What if these structures were motion sensitive and opened or closed by your prescence? I propose to animate these cellular inspired zip-tie lattices utilizing Nitinol or Muscle Wire morphing and contoring using motion sensors. Additionally, I might integrate LED’s and video projection upon a scrim covered curtain to illuminte the texture – glowing in intesnsity according to the motion of a passerby. The overall aim of the prototype is to create an immersive amorphous environment reminiscent to the undulating movement of sea anemones. This project is inspired and based upon the following installation below:
Branching Morphogenesis explores fundamental processes in living systems and their potential application in architecture. The project investigates part-to-whole relationships revealed during the generation of branched structures formed in real-time by interacting lung endothelial cells placed within a 3D matrix environment. The installation materializes five slices in time that capture the force network exerted by interacting vascular cells upon their matrix environment.
