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.
Participants
TERREFORM ONE
NEW YORK, USA
Mitchell Joachim, New Jersey, USA, 1972. Lives and works in New York and Miami, USA, and Konstanz, Germany.
MELANIE FESSEL, Konstanz, Germany, 1982. Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland.
PEDER ANKER, Oslo, Norway, 1966. Lives and works in New York, USA, and Oslo, Norway.
PAUL D. MILLER AKA DJ SPOOKY, Washington DC, USA, 1970. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Team
Vivian Kuan, Julie Bleha (Studio Directors); David Paraschiv, Emily Young, Sky Achitoff, Avantika Velho, JJ Zhijie Jin (Project Design); Sebastian S. Cocioba, Oliver Medvedik (Science Advisors); Justin Den Herder, PE, TYLin, Robert Silman Associates (Structural Engineer); Wendy W. Fok (Collaborator); Ava Hudson, Marina Ongaro, Jerzelle Lim, Helen Gui, Nicholas Lynch (Research)
Thanks
Victoria Rosner, Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University
