When people talk about modern architecture you tend to think clean lines, curves, steel and glass. You do not tend to think meat. Hold on to your set square.
Cutting edge, and award-winning architect, Mitchell Joachim does though. Based at Brooklyn’s non-profit Terreform ONE practice, Joachim and his team are experimenting with ways to grow homes from a petri dish.
You may already have come across his Fab Tree Hab, which thankfully, uses trees and plants. See a photo after the jump.
Growing meat homes might be a few years – possibly decades – off but Mitchell is proposing the In Vitro Meat Habitat, using the “fabrication of 3D printed extruded pig cells to form real organic dwellings. It is intended to be a “victimless shelter”, because no sentient being was harmed in the laboratory growth of the skin. We used sodium benzoate as a preservative to kill yeasts, bacteria and fungi. Other materials in the model matrix are; collagen powder, xanthan gum, mannitol, cochineal, sodium pyrophosphate, and recycled PET plastic scaffold.”
Wild indeed.
Not the prettiest house you will ever see, and Joachim admits to that, but you got to give credit for taking architecture in a completely new direction.
See him talk a little about it in the video below.
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