Coding Plants: An Artificial Reef and Living Kelp Archive

In the future, libraries will not be built, but grown. Here, DNA of seaweed will be encoded with all the design knowledge of our societies, and architectural sustainability will be written directly into the semi-natural ecosystem of flora and fauna. Coding Plants is a synthetic living reef that will be the ultimate archive preserving architectural data. A single gram of plant DNA can, at least theoretically, store up to 215 million gigabytes of information. By embedding design knowledge into living organisms, Coding Plants is a green architectural library for a better tomorrow in which nature is empowered on the genetic level.