To Grow a Building explores the fine line between machines’ meticulously planned aspects and nature’s unpredictable elements. It features a building that was manufactured using a machine capable of 3D printing soil embedded with seeds. After printing, the structure takes on a life of its own: the seeds germinate, grow vegetables, and bloom, gradually occupying the original digitally designed structure and transforming it—until it dissolves and returns to the earth.
Participants
NOF NATHANSOHN, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1988. Lives and works in Cambridge, USA.
Technical Collaborators
WASP
Team
Gitit Linker, Yuval Ayali, Elisheva Gillis, and Shai Keselbrener (Research Associates); Tomer Faraj, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center (Botanist)
Thanks
Einav Mayzlish-Gati, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center; MIT School of Architecture; SCE Negev School of Architecture
Supporters
Rogovin ltd fund for ecological innovation in construction; MIT MISTI
