The Biorock Pavilion is a realistic proposal to grow a building in seawater through the electro-deposition of minerals onto a lightweight steel frame. Once grown and transported to an urban location, the building will function as a performance space for talks. The form is based on the curves and folding of ribbed mollusc shells which create strength with minimal material. To date, there have been very few examples of architecture that has been grown in any sense that is truly comparable to biological growth processes. Biorock Pavilion will be the first ever example of “adaptive growth” in architecture.
Participants
KELLY HILL, MICHAEL PAWLYN, ADAM HOLLOWAY, KAREN BIRD, ED CLARK, ANDY HAYLES, AND JON STEVENS
LONDON, UK; WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND
Kelly Hill, Leigh-on-Sea, England, 1965. Lives and works in London, UK.
Michael Pawlyn, Hamburg, Germany, 1967. Lives and works in London, UK.
Adam Holloway, Malé, Maldives, 1985. Lives in Buckinghamshire, works in London, UK.
Karen Bird, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1972. Lives and works in Wiltshire, UK.
Ed Clark, London, UK, 1972. Lives and works in London, UK.
Andy Hayles, London, UK, 1967. Lives and works in London, UK.
Jon Stevens, Birmingham, England, 1967. Lives and works in London, UK.
Authorial collaborators
Exploration Architecture; Adam Holloway Architects; Arup; Charcoalblue; Kelly Hill Photography; Peloton Design; Julien Vincent
Technical collaborators
Exploration Architecture: Niamh Anderson and Yaniv Peer (Architect); Julien Vincent (Biomimetics); Students from the MA Digital Craft in Architecture course at Oxford Brookes University
Team
Exploration Architecture: Michael Pawlyn and Kelly Hill; Adam Holloway Architects; Ed Clark, Arup; Andy Hayles and Jon Stevens, Charcoalblue; Kelly Hill Photography; Karen Bird, Peloton Design; Julien Vincent
Thanks
Arup; Charcoalblue
