Innovative bioengineers are displaying the potential of biomaterials at the California College of the Arts, revealing how everyday items can become building materials. Claire Leffler, an architecture research fellow, emphasizes the exploration of architecture's boundaries. Collaborations with companies like Chris Maurer's Redhouse Studio aim to create structures using mycelium and other organic materials for possible use on Mars. Meanwhile, projects in the Bay Area, like Arthur Harsuvanakit's work with Autodesk, focus on using these sustainable materials to achieve net-zero buildings, emphasizing a low carbon footprint and environmental sustainability.
"We kind of just wanted to show the potential and different boundaries that architecture is starting to break," said Claire Leffler, architecture research fellow.
"The plan is to go with an inflatable structure that has an exterior shell of bioreactors that would then fill with water... to grow those microorganisms," explains Chris Maurer.
"Our target is to make sustainable net zero buildings, and this s..." said Arthur Harsuvanakit of Autodesk.
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