Atlanta in 2108: Merging DNA with Architecture

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/25/The_Philosophy_of_Organic_Design

Matthias Hollwich, founder of the concept design firm HWKN, discusses his far-seeing project to envision Atlanta in the year 2108. Hollwich believes that, in the near future, scientists will be able to merge DNA into architectural design to create autonomous self-reproducing buildings.

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Organic design is a philosophy of design that respects the users is influence by nature, recognizes the process of evolution and is holistic in its approach. This panel of architects and designers talks about what is required to practice organic design and the importance of energy conservation, natural materials and renewable resources in modern buildings.

The panelists include Usman Haque, CEO of Connected Environments Ltd. and founder of Pachube.com, Rachel Armstrong, TED Global Fellow and Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and Matthias Hollwich, Architect and founder of HWKN. - PICNIC 2009

Matthias Hollwich is the co-founder of Hollwich Kushner (HWKN), a New York City based architecture and concept design firm. The office deploys targeted research and fast-footed development to create innovative and responsible projects that exist at the intersection of client, user, and nature.

Current projects include a retirement village for priests in Cote d'Ivoire, 2 large-scale apartment renovations on New York's Upper East Side, the Favella Formiga Open Air Theater in Rio de Janeiro, and ongoing work with the Obama Administration on the rehabilitation of the Sasha Bruce House in Washington DC.

From 1999-2001, Hollwich was assistant professor at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Switzerland 1999 - 2001 and part of the Bauhaus Dessau Werkstaedte between 2002 and 2006. In 2004 he finished editing his first book with Rainer Weisbach at the Bauhaus: UmBauhaus - Updating Modernism. He most recently took part in the PICNIC lecture series in Amsterdam and is a contributor to the forthcoming IBA 2010 Urban Redevelopment program for the Dessau region.

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[KungFriedChicken]

Fuck there is so many uneducated people with smart ass comments its incredible.. Its basically photosynthesis solar power... Plants are fucking mega efficient at converting sunlight into energy.. We know its possible, and they are already pretty close to cracking it.. (CSIRO is already doing it) another 10 years or so and they think they'll have it down pat.. plus it will absorb carbon etc... awesome idea blah blah

[MeIsBreen]

This is all fancy talk for big tree houses.

[SVHSolyom]

@Shaiyakeisky Sounds good to me :)



[panosfye]

adjasting nature to as ? wy not adjust as into nature ?

[Shaiyakeisky]

So we will living at the jungle full of electricity :)

[happinesson]

this is far beyond my understanding.Far beyond reality and far beyond possibility! what an imaginative brain you have..

[limeliter]

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[NyZe211]

lol @ Metreepolis

[GLaDOSBOY19]

All I can say is. DERPDERP DICKDICK DERPHERPDERP LOLOLOL.... bitch im going to blend that with my BLENDTEC BLENDER!

[erasmusso]

If this is true we'll get there, but gradually! It won't happen overnight and it will surely need a LOT of changes in our society. I believe the first step is the Venus Project, which is based on the current technology, and only then we'll see if DNA-buildings are a reality.

[1dtbimp]

Its like spongebobs Pineaple house. Haha

[AMANDAtheAWESOMEone]

@garvess I know I'm a year late on replying to your comment, but why does it almost make you laugh? =)

There were houses built in 1911 (100 years ago) & way before that still stand today. Houses today reflect the designs of past houses.

It isn't that hard to predict architecture. Especially based on studies of environmental and economical changes.

Maybe if they were predicting architecture 500 or maybe even 1,000 years from now, that would be hilarious.

Things change fast, but not that fast.