Federico’s BIOCLAD

Posted by griffa on 2014 December 9 · Leave a Comment

The last September, Federico Borello’s project BIOCLAD has been presented for Final Graduation at the Politecnico di Torino. Federico graduated with honors and the project has been awarded with publication among the school’s best Final Thesis.

The thesis is part of a body of work that Cesare Griffa and Roberto Giordano are building on the theme of living facades within the Polito. BIOCLAD is a photobioreactor system to be used as external cladding on building surface:

“BIOCLAD is an adaptive biodigital cladding system for the cultivation of microalgae able to transform the solar energy into chemical energy through the photosynthetic process, fixing CO2 and producing O2. Microalgae function as a sort of micro biorefinery, from their biomass can be extracted proteins for the food industry, omega 3 and amino acids for the nutraceutical industry, cosmetic and pharmaceutical molecules, bioplastics and biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel. The allocation of a sensor system able to map in real time the environmental conditions and using data as input for mechanical and biological transformations, allows to propagate the autonomous intelligence of the single component to a system of components defining a system of distributed intelligence.”

(more info here)

Credits:
Design: Federico Borello
Tutors: Cesare Griffa, Roberto Giordano
Biologic Consultant: Mario Tredici

Filed under design, education · Tagged with algae, algae farm, arduino, Federico Borello, photo bio reactor, politecnico di Torino, torino

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Just a few months after the Pink Floyd published The Dark Side of the Moon, Cesare Griffa was born in Torino, son of Giorgio (painter) and Adriana (Newfoundland breeder). He went to a french school and got a Baccalaureat C in Chambéry. He then studied architecture at the Politecnico di Torino, and at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Valencia. Despite the late post-modern cultural environment of those years, he managed to graduate. Soon after becoming an architect, he enrolled in the Italian Navy where he served as sub lieutenant in the Italian Coast Guard on the Adriatic Sea.

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Back to Architecture, he worked on a series of commercial projects before landing in London at the Architectural Association Design Research Lab, where he got into nerdy computer design. With many of his fellows from the AA, he moved directly to the fast growing studio Zaha Hadid Architects just after graduation. He soon returned to Torino for a short adventure working on the Ice Hockey Stadium designed by Arata Isozaki, ARUP and Pier Paolo Maggiora, and then moved back to Zaha where he was part of the team that opened the Italian office in Rome.

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He finally settled in his hometown Torino where he got a PhD from the Politecnico, opened his own practice, and began his teaching activity. He later spent a half year as a Fulbright research scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He teaches at the Politecnico di Torino and has been Master School coordinator at Istituto Europeo di Design.

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His interests focus on making stuff for an adaptive future in which humankind learn to embrace a symbiotic approach to Nature instead of trying to dominate and destroy.

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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, Rubner Haus (Kiens, I), Santa & Cole (Barcelona, ES), Scuola Holden (Turin, I), Torino 2008 World Design Capital Committee (I) , Zaha Hadid Architects (London, UK).

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