ARBOR.Pilae is a cyborganic timber architecture embedded with the intelligence of a living tree. It establishes a regenerative lifecycle of wood from its living state to a bio-artificially “grown” material system that is embedded with the behaviour of a living matter. It uses machine learning algorithms to read the diverse structural properties of wood species traditionally used in Venice and impart its behaviour into synthetic form. Biological data is extracted from living systems, processed through inorganic machine learning algorithms, and reintegrated into synthetic matter, woodbased materials capable of storing and re-metabolising carbon.
Participants
MARIA KUPTSOVA, Leningrad, USSR, 1989. Lives and works in Innsbruck, Austria, and internationally.
Team
Korbinian Enzinger (Computational Designer); Artem Konevskikh (Machine Learning Engineer); Claudia Pasquero (Research Supervisor); Beyza Nur Armagan (Fabrication Assistant)
Thanks
Chirag Rangholia (3D Printing and Robotic Engineering); Aldo Sollazzo (3D Printing and Robotic Engineering); Marco Poletto (Research)
Supporters
LAMAQUINA (Engineering & Robotic 3D Printing); PURE.TECH (Material Technology); Synthetic Landscape Lab, Institute of Urban Design, University of Innsbruck (Research Infrastructure); Growers of Mushroom (Living Matter)
