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A study model for reconstructing urban ecological niches

Ilgün, Asya
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Mills, Rob  
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Mondada, Francesco  
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Frier Hvejsel, Marie
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Cruz, Paulo J.S.
2022
Structures and Architecture A Viable Urban Perspective?
Fifth International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2022)

The Living Arch is a study model that was designed to showcase our ongoing research into bioactive architectural systems to be inhabited by honeybees. The arch is a synergistic combination of 3D printing and active mycelia growth, created for a museum exhibition. It presents (and tests) a subset of our research and development work toward creating living mycelium beehives. The Living Arch exhibits numerous physical, chemical, and biological states in a transparent custom-made box fitted with environmental sensors. It facilitates a visual and olfactory experience of an undergoing slow fungal transformation, which museum visitors could witness and participate in throughout the 6-month exhibition. In this paper, we present the Living Arch as an experimental exhibition piece and a study model of a fungal architecture, as well as the problems that led to the exhibition's early termination.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Ilgün, Asya
Mills, Rob  
Mondada, Francesco  
Schmickl, Thomas
Editors
Frier Hvejsel, Marie
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Cruz, Paulo J.S.
Date Issued

2022

Publisher

CRC Press

Publisher place

London

Published in
Structures and Architecture A Viable Urban Perspective?
ISBN of the book

9781003023555

Series title/Series vol.

Structures and Architecture; 2

Start page

75

End page

82

Subjects

biohybrid

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animal-robot interaction

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honeybees

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smart hives

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biofabrication

Note

Book doi: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003023555

URL

preprint PDF (researchgate)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363925951_A_Study_Model_for_Reconstructing_Urban_Ecological_Niches
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Fifth International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2022)

Aalborg, Denmark

July 6–8, 2022

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August 8, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/199660
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