Manifesta: Caring for Fungi and Pollution

Architects Stangeland and Kropf decided to engage with this transitional state. The Naked Garden is generated by the mediation of different modes: biological propagation, mathematical abstraction and technological execution. A robot, programmed with the rules by which the fungi grow, engraves and perforates the wall already inhabited by fungi, thereby allowing light, water and wind to enter and to facilitate the basic conditions of life.

Jorge Otero-Pailos is an architect and theorist specialized in experimental forms of preservation. His contribution to Manifesta is The Ethics of Dust, an installation intended to preserve pollution and the dust that has to be swept away from the building during the renovation process. Pollution has negative connotation. Yet, it can tell fascinating stories about our social, cultural and industrial past.

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By Regine
on August 30, 2008

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Rainwater Harvesting Proposal

This posting is originally found from Pruned. For Parque del Lago idea competition, architectural firm, Paisajes Emergentes proposes open amphitheater as a rainwater collection system. As the water level rises, the amphitheater turns into a water pool, and as the water dries up, the amphitheater reveals. Simple and compelling...

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The fuel tank of future

This article talks about the new innovation to store hydrogen in the material - mainly carbon nano tubes and graphne - The fascinating part of this article for me is the generative structures formed from carbon nano tubes - wondering if the form has to do with the capacity to hold hydrogen inside of the material, which has to be 6% of all.

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