A unique hybrid of natural and synthetic elements, Terrestrial Reef examines the implications and opportunities of a fictional future scenario, where landscape is designed and shaped by artificial intelligence, asking the question: ‘how would machines develop a hybrid ecosystem of natural and artificial symbionts?’. The project is co-designed by Tiziano Derme from University of Innsbruck and MAEID.
Terrestrial Reef is the second project working to an ‘anti-garden’ concept, developed initially with Pahoehoe Beauty for the 2018 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. It will be displayed within the Show Garden Silver Medal Winner ‘Gardening Will Save the World – Ikea and Tom Dixon’ pavilion, at the 2019 RHS Royal Chelsea Flower Show until Saturday 25 May.
Marjan is Professor of Architecture and Post Digital Practice and co-directs the school’s Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2). He is also founder of REX|LAB, a robotic experimentation laboratory at the University of Innsbruck, where he is Head of the Institute of Experimental Architecture.
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Credits
- Professor Dr Marjan Colletti, UCL and University of Innsbruck
- Tiziano Derme, University of Innsbruck and MAEID (Büro für Architektur und Transmediale Kunst)
- Moritz Riedl, University of Innsbruck
- Lukas Vorreiter, University of Innsbruck
- Daniela Mitterberger, MAEID (soil printing research)
- Tyroler Glückspilze GmbH (fungi research)
- B-made, The Bartlett (robotics)
- REX|LAB at Innsbruck University (facilities)
- The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
- Innsbruck University
- Tom Dixon Design Research Studio
- Josephine de Guzman and Toni Pavic at Tom Dixon Design Research Studio
- Mark Stuettler, Manuel Stuettler and Michael Schneider at Tyroler Glueckspilze
- Marielena Papendriou, Niamh Grace and Peter Scully at B-made, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
- Gabriela Seifert and Ernest Hager at Innsbruck University
- Fiona Silk and Rossana Porta during installation; MAEID
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