10 de julio de 2012

architecture that repairs itself...?

Rachel Armstrong re-imagines the world’s cities and argues that in order to achieve sustainable development of the built environment we need to rethink how we approach architecture. "Living architecture is not a panacea to urban problems, but propose an alternative approach to making buildings  that may help alleviate these problem. Our cities, as they currently exist, as seen as inert barriers to the natural world. The ideas may seem outlandish but they are based on real technology that exists today. All applications of scientific research in the laboratory remain speculative until they are transformed into products. But we are heading that way."