In our latest school show, undergraduate studios at the Manchester School of Architecture explore how feminist architectural theory can be used as a tool to design a fairer society.
Joanna Davis06:00, Jun 03 2021
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The living wall in Karin Waechter s home takes up one whole wall.
Karin Waechter says she doesn’t have a green thumb, but you d never know it from the luxuriant living wall that is such a feature of her home. Waechter loves the massive green wall at the home in Dairy Flat, north of Auckland, that Vertical Garden NZ established for her and her family. “I don t have a green thumb at all and we’re not gardening people. “But it looks gorgeous, and during the night the plants renew the air for the house, for our three children. Everything inside grows so much better than outside.”
Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition shows how algae can be used as air purifiers and protein source
EcoLogicStudio has designed the Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which invites visitors to taste freshly harvested algae and consider growing it in their own homes.
Combining architecture and microbiology, the exhibition shows how city dwellers could purify the air, sequester carbon, gain a sustainable food source and enjoy a greater connection to nature by cultivating their own algae.
The Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition explores ways to live with and eat algae
London-based EcoLogicStudio, which has been working with the ancient microbes for 10 years, describes them as having a unique biological intelligence because their metabolism is so efficient.