Abstract
Baubotanik-the construction method that uses living plants for load bearing in architectural structures-provides a surprising ability to anticipate the latent convergence of non-living and living systems in architecture. Through interdisciplinary research by architects, engineers and biologists it aims to synthesise architectural qualities, constructive requirements and biological properties in living structures. In this article, Ferdinand Ludwig, Hannes Schwertfeger and Oliver Storz of the Baubotanik research group at the Institute for Architectural Theory and Design (IGMA) at the University of Stuttgart explain how living and non-living building elements can be designed to develop into vegetal-technical compound structures.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 82-87 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Architectural Design |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2012 |
Keywords
- 'plant addition'
- 'stabilisers of expectation'
- Baubotanical Tower
- bending forces
- botanical hybrid composites
- form adaptation
- inosculation
- living buildings
- mechanical pressure
- tight radii
- trees
- tropical strangler fig (Ficus benghalensis)
- vegetal framework structure
- willows (Salix alba)
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