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Bartlett staff and students explore the fabric of life at the Pompidou Centre

25 February 2019

La Fabrique du Vivant – The Fabric of the Living – is now open in Paris until 15 April.

Bioreceptive Concrete wall by Professors Marcos Cruz, Javier Ruiz and Richard Beckett in partnership with Pennine Stone Limited

Staff and Master's students from Urban Design and Bio-Integrated Design are exhibiting at the Pompidou Centre in Paris as part of the exhibition La Fabrique du Vivant (The Fabric of the Living). The show explores the future forms of spatial intelligence, investigating how, in a new digital era, the notion of living takes on a new form of artificiality in the interaction between creation and the fields of life science, neuroscience and synthetic biology.

Claudia Pasquero, lecturer and director of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab, is exhibiting 'H.O.R.T.U.S. XL Astaxanthin.g', a project which uses a digital algorithm to simulate the growth of a substratum inspired by coral morphology and 'XenoDerma', which examines the behaviour of spiders, reprogramming the production of silk through the design of the 3D printed substructure and of its geometrical features. The latter was originally developed by Urban Design students Mengxuan Lii and Xiao Liang as part of their project for The Bartlett’s B-Pro Show last year. 

Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) is a collaboration between The Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL's Department of Biochemical Engineering. They are exhibiting three dishes of Robotically Extruded Algae-Laden Hydrogel, created by Professor Marcos Cruz, PhD candidate Shneel Malik and Dr Brenda Parker, with Paolo Bombelli from Cambridge University who collaborated on the photobiovoltaics. Marcos Cruz also collaborated with Javier Ruiz in partnership with the industry Pennine Stone Limited to create a bioreceptive concrete wall, which is a prototype for a much larger wall to be installed at the St Anne’s RC Primary School, Lambeth London later this year.

Robotically extruded algae-laden hydrogel
The Fabric of the Living is exhibiting at the Pompidou Centre until 15 April. 

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Lead image:

Bioreceptive Concrete Wall 
Created by Professors Marcos Cruz and Javier Ruiz in partnership with Pennine Stone Limited.
Concept: Marcos Cruz (Principal Investigator) with Richard Beckett
Collaboration: Anete Salmane, Nina Jotanovic and Alex McCann (B-Made)
Biology: Rushi Mehta
Moss supply: Camley Street Nature Park and Meanwhile Wildlife Garden, London
Engineering: Manja van de Worp (NOUS Engineering)
Digital Fabrication: B-Made
Sponsor: Transport for London; Lambeth Council
Photo credit: Sarah Lever

Other images:

H.O.R.T.U.S. XL Astaxanthin.g (fullscale)
Design: ecoLogicStudio (Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto with Konstantinos Alexopoulos, Matteo Baldissara, Michael Brewster)
Research partner for biological as well as 3d printed systems and production development: Synthetic Landscape Lab, IOUD, Innsbruck University (Prof. Claudia Pasquero with Maria Kuptsova, Terezia Greskova, Emiliano Rando, Jens Burkart, Niko Jabadari, Simon Posch); Photosynthetica consortium 
Research partner for 3d printed systems and production development: CREATE Group / WASP Hub Denmark - University of Southern Denmark (SDU) (Prof. Roberto Naboni with Furio Magaraggia)
Engineering: YIP structural engineering, Manja Van De Worp
Microalgal Medium Material Support: Ecoduna AG
3D printing Material Support: Extrudr
Image by ©NAARO

H.O.R.T.U.S. XL Astaxanthin.g (close-up)
Design: ecoLogicStudio (Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto with Konstantinos Alexopoulos, Matteo Baldissara, Michael Brewster)
Research partner for biological as well as 3d printed systems and production development: Synthetic Landscape Lab, IOUD, Innsbruck University (Prof. Claudia Pasquero with Maria Kuptsova, Terezia Greskova, Emiliano Rando, Jens Burkart, Niko Jabadari, Simon Posch); Photosynthetica consortium 
Research partner for 3d printed systems and production development: CREATE Group / WASP Hub Denmark - University of Southern Denmark (SDU) (Prof. Roberto Naboni with Furio Magaraggia)
Engineering: YIP structural engineering, Manja Van De Worp
Microalgal Medium Material Support: Ecoduna AG
3D printing Material Support: Extrudr
Image by ©NAARO

XenoDerma, 2018
Design, Research and Production: Urban Morphogenesis Lab, Research Cluster 16 (Lab Director: Claudia Pasquero, Lab Researchers: Filippo, Nassetti, Emmanouil Zaroukas, Design Team: Mengxuan Lii, Xia Liang) BRPO The Bartlett UCL 

Robotically extruded algae-laden hydrogel
Petri dishes for bioremediation, biophotovoltaics and biosorption
Created by Professor Marcos Cruz, PhD candidate Shneel Malik and Dr Brenda Parker
Collaboration: Dr Paolo Bombelli, Anete Salmane, Javier Ruiz, Dr Laura Stoffels
Computation: Shneel Malik, Javier Ruiz with collaboration of Nina Jotanovic and Anete Salmane
Digital Fabrication: B-Made
Sponsor: EPSRC / GCRF; Amorim Cork Composites