Bio-Integrated Design MArch/MSc Programme Directors: Marcos Cruz (The Bartlett School of Architecture), Brenda Parker (UCL Biochemical Engineering) Our Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) programmes integrate biotechnology, advanced computation and fabrication in the context of climate change, to create a radically new and sustainable built environment. They take these life-changing phenomena as the foundation to explore sophisticated yet critical design solutions that will help to shape our future society. Taught collaboratively by two UCL departments, The Bartlett School of Architecture and Biochemical Engineering, Bio-ID proposes a new sense of materiality with emergent hybrid technologies that form innovative products and environments infused with natural and synthetic life. With two different Master’s programmes working in tandem – an MArch and MSc – each student’s work balances laboratory research, computational design and advanced fabrication. The programmes are hands-on, with intense studio and lab work the norm. The emphasis lies on the translation of phenomena observed at a microscopic level into an architecturally relevant scale. Nature plays a central role, beyond that of a model or inspiration; it is in itself the medium of a new multi-layered design approach that is biologically, materially and socially integrated. Bio-ID merges a wide range of expertise, from highend digital design to laboratory research in applied science. It combines design experimentation with scientific methodologies to create novel materials, systems and space. The programmes bring together a community of multidisciplinary practitioners. This year, they have attracted a diverse community of students, including architects, landscape architects, designers and artists studying the MArch and scientists and engineers studying the MSc. Work produced by Bio-ID students has been featured in recent exhibitions and related research by doctoral students has also gained international acclaim. Bio-Integrated Design projects in the lab, studio and gallery 182
Students Dali Alnaeb, Yandongxue Chen, Yara Gadah, Erh-Chia Hsu, Ziying Jin, Aurora Li, Yao Yao Meng, Erfan Pour Ahmad, Ian Thomas Robinson, Julián Rodríguez Jirau, Timothy Ryan, Shankar Saanthakumar, Jasmina Salam, Vivek George Sanu Tutors Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Javier Ruiz Laboratory Co-ordinator Anete Salmane Theory Tutors Paolo Bombelli, Will Goodall-Copestake, Gary Grant, Nina Jotanovic, Andreas Koerner, Zoe Laughlin, Ruby Law, Guan Lee, Christopher Leung, Anete Salmane, Mark Spencer, Maria Villefane, John Ward, Tom Wilkinson Critics Lena Asai, Matthew Barnett Howland, Bastian Beyer, Martyn Dade-Robertson, Andreas Koerner, Katia Larina, Ricardo de Ostos, Maj Plemenitas, Andrew Porter, Juan Roldan, Bob Sheil, Ram Shergill, Bill Watts, Oliver Wilton Partners UCL Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering, UCL The Institute of Making, Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey, IAAC Barcelona, University of Coimbra