| id |
acadia23_v2_220 |
| authors |
Beckett, Richard |
| year |
2023 |
| title |
Architecture for the Holobiont: Designing Probiotic Interventions |
| source |
ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 2: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-9-8]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 220-229. |
| summary |
This paper details a biodigital, probiotic design approach to creating biologically active material systems for buildings. These living materials are beneficial for the health of the human holobiont body through their impact on the human microbiome and potential to shape immunoregulatory health. I frame the research within the context of bio-inte- grated design in architecture and engineered living materials (ELM’s), but with novel focus on microbiome health in urban environments. I introduce the discipline of microbiome science and its associated metagenomic technologies that show how it may be possible for bio-integrated design approaches to reshape the indoor microbiome of buildings. We propose a computational methodology towards designing and fabricating hybrid living building components that serve as both a niche and a source of symbiotically important microbes for buildings. A biodigital approach is presented, driven by current knowledge of the indoor microbiome and indoor environmental conditions that promote beneficial microbial transmissions via mechanisms of touch, ingestion, and respiration. This is presented through an experimental project which develops a human-machine-microbe fabrication process to create a living prototype which is then explored and assessed through an intervention study using a 16S metagenomic analysis. |
| series |
ACADIA |
| type |
paper |
| email |
richard.beckett@ucl.ac.uk |
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