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Living Systems: Designing Growth in Baubotanik
Author(s) -
Ludwig Ferdinand,
Schwertfreger Hannes,
Storz Oliver
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1383
Subject(s) - living systems , architecture , architectural engineering , constructive , living lab , engineering , architectural design , assisted living , computer science , artificial intelligence , visual arts , gerontology , art , process (computing) , world wide web , medicine , operating system
Baubotanik – the construction method that uses living plants for load bearing in architectural structures – provides a surprising ability to anticipate the latent convergence of non‐living and living systems in architecture. Through interdisciplinary research by architects, engineers and biologists it aims to synthesise architectural qualities, constructive requirements and biological properties in living structures. In this article, Ferdinand Ludwig, Hannes Schwertfeger and Oliver Storz of the Baubotanik research group at the Institute for Architectural Theory and Design (IGMA) at the University of Stuttgart explain how living and non‐living building elements can be designed to develop into vegetal‐technical compound structures. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.