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Project Overview
EcoLogicStudio has designed a modular system filtering CO2 and pollutants by installing algae culture on building facades.
Project Commissioner
EIT Climate-KIC annual Climate Innovation Summit
Project Creator
Project Context
Photo.Synth.Etica is a consortium co-founded by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, directed by ecoLogicStudio in Partnership with Urban Morphgenesis Lab - UCL and Synthetic Landscapes Lab – University of Innsbruck.
Ubiquitous computing enables us to decipher the biopshere’s anthropogenic dimension. In front of our eyes, a new computational panorama appears, a mathematical landscape that we are interpreting as the biosphere’s new nature. Welcome to the Anthropocene: The time when our civilisation reached global impact.
Our mission is to:
· Bring Photosynthesis to the build environment.
· Store solar energy ecologically.
· Decarbonize cities.
· Cultivate the public realm collectively.
· Retrofit buildings into bio-power stations.
· Pioneer the bio-Smart sector.
· Enable the urban healthy food revolution.
· Turn pollution into raw material.
· Grow architecture beautifully.
· Enable eco-systemic urban growth.
· Design new technologies for bio-conscious cities
Project Innovation
Photo.Synth.Etica envelopes the first and second floor of the main façade of the Printworks building at Dublin Castle. ‘Each module functions as a photobioreactor, a digitally designed and custom-made bio plastic container that utilises daylight to feed the living micro-algal cultures and releases luminescent shades at night.’ they told us. CO2 molecules and air pollutants are captured and stored by the algae, and grow into biomass.
ecologicStudio told us that some of their forthcoming projects include a photosynthetic sculpture for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, a research project involving the use of bio gel instead of water as the algae medium, 3D printing techniques to prototype architectural photobioreactors, and the design of a façade system for a new museum of microbes in Innsbruck in Austria.
Social and Community-Oriented Design - Systems
Social design applies a design methodology and intervention to tighten the social fabric that holds us together. Addressing issues of social inequality, such as poverty or social isolation, social design is the pathway to a more just and sustainable society. Community-oriented design is a human-centered and participatory design practice that emphasises the betterment of local communities through the improvement of public facilities, equipment, identity and experience.
All systems are designed to serve a purpose – and that purpose is to serve people. Systems design optimises systems performance by systematically focusing on the human component - human capacities, abilities, limitations and aspirations.
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