Scanning electron micrograph of E. coli bacteria. A rapidly growing colony can be programmed to act as a hugely powerful parallel computer. Photograph: Getty Computers are evolving – literally. While the tech world argues netbooks vs notebooks, synthetic biologists are leaving traditional computers behind altogether. A team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that could […]

Biophilia : Technophilia Projects noted as visionary within the architectural realm are all explicitly linked to the machine and the technologies that embody it, whether they are conceptual, mechanized constructions, virtual ones, or the cabbalistic. The use of technology in architecture fully embodies the architypes of the time and visionary architects’ pursuing projects of representation […]

A movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature, by Cristóbal Vila. Etereae Studios

Study of sectional representation.

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Produced with a “bottom-up” self-assembly technique, the new structure takes advantage of nanotechnology to fine-tune its materials properties, addressing the shortcomings of earlier silicon-based battery anodes. The simple, low-cost fabrication technique was designed to be easily scaled up and compatible with existing battery manufacturing. Details of the new self-assembly approach were published online in the […]

-archimorph featured in the 2007, iaac 2nd advanced architecture contest; the self-fab house. the project, ‘cultivating spaces’ was among the finalists, continuing a controversial discourse which attempts to synthesize nanotechnology, architecture, and biomimetics. the book is an actar publication and can be purchased here.