Launching soon …
The Biorock Pavilion
at the Biennale Architettura 2025
Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
curated by Carlo Ratti
“Imagining standing on the stage as a performer, looking out at the curvaceous forms and getting a sense of the room giving back to you in a way that a conventional building doesn’t really. You are going to be able to play the room in a very different way. We need to model that. We can’t wait to model that and it’s going to be so exciting when it’s finished.”
Andy Hayles, Charcoalblue
“I think it’s really important for design teams to experiment with these new types of construction. We know as an industry we are not decarbonising fast enough. The embodied carbon of our structures is a large part of the impact that we make. There is a lot of research in trying to produce lower carbon versions of traditional construction materials - steel - concrete and so on. But that is only going to get us so far. We also need to think of slightly out of the box and develop new innovative construction materials as part of that pathway to decarbonisation.”
Ed Clark, Arup
“The reason it is important to strive for efficiency is because we have a whole host of challenges - climate change - resource depletion - and we really need to find innovative ways to design buildings that use materials far more efficiently. So we can create our buildings with a fraction of the resource and energy input that we do currently.”
Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture
“Traditional construction involves transporting materials, assembling components, often with significant energy input and waste. Here, the primary material is sourced in situ from the ocean, and the structure actively grows itself. ”
Adam Holloway, Project Architect
The Biorock Pavilion