Breeding Space

Zbigniew Oksiuta's works merge biology, art and architecture.

The Spatium Gelatum (congealed space) project is a proposal for the habitat of the future. The architect's experiments involves new technologies to create spatial forms under water in a state of relative weightlessness. Such forms are kinds of dynamic liquid blobs made of biological polymers.

Breeding Space envisages the possibilities of designing biological spatial structures. The self-regulatory and vegetable system would work as a live habitat, taking up, transforming and synthesizing matter and energy from its surroundings by biological means and controling all functions and events by internal information.

Vegetable cells would grow in vitro on agar agar (found in red algae and used as thickening agent in the food industry and as a culture medium in microbiology), using them as food and becoming themselves biological habitat.

Oksiuta's projects were exhibited at the last 9th International Architecture Exhibition in Venezia, in the Polish Pavillon.

Via Future Feeder.