photo-bio creatures (beta1.0) structure

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This week we assembled the first mock-up of our “photo-bio creature”, an architectural surfacing component that grows phytoplancton that can be used to produce bui-fuel.

The structure is composed of wooden strips cnc cutted and bended, to form a curvilinear wooden space frame. It will serve as support for a piping system that will contain the biological water based solution with the live phytoplancton.

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Cesare Griffa is an architect and designer based in Turin (Italy). His work explores the application of advanced generative design tools, digital fabrication techniques and algal bio technologies for the development of sustainable architecture and design. He internationally lectures on the topics of digital and sustainable architecture. Before opening his own practice in 2006, he studied at the Politecnico di Torino and the Architectural Association in London, and practiced with Zaha Hadid Architects and Arata Isozaki & Partners. He is a Fulbright fellow, and Master Coordinator at IED Torino.
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Predicting a sustainable future
In the coming future, global population as well as the temperature of the planet will grow dramatically, while fossil resources will decline. There will be a need of more and more energy and food, and the necessity to reduce green house gas emissions. A designer, that is an innate specialist of future prediction because his work will happen forward in time, has to take in account these apparent limitations and use them as resources. A great responsibility towards future generations is on our shoulders, and our job is to face this amazing challenge with creativity!
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Clients Portfolio includes: ArchA Spa (Turin, I), Buzzi srl (Turin, I), Carlo Ratti Associati (Turin, I), Comitato Italia 150 (Turin, I), Comune di Nichelino (I), Comune di Venaria Reale (I), Comune di Nichelino (I), DE-GA Spa (Turin, I), De’ Longhi (Treviso, I), Elle srl (Treviso, I), Fondazione per il libro, la musica e la cultura (Torino, I), IAAC (Barcelona, ES), Istituto Europeo di Design (Milano, Torino, I), MIT Senseable City Lab (Boston, USA), NITAL srl (Torino, I), Ordine degli Architetti di Imperia (I), Politecnico di Torino, Regione Piemonte, Santa & Cole (Barcelona, ES), Scuola Holden (Turin, I), Torino 2008 World Design Capital Committee (I) , Zaha Hadid Architects (London, UK).
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