Exhibition: Bucky Lab - Bioreceptivity
07 December 2022 09:00 till 31 January 2023 17:00 - Location: Botanical Garden, TU Delft - By: Communicatie BK | Add to my calendar
Last spring 21 architecture students set out to research “the ability of a material to be colonized by living organisms”. In other words, they experimented with facade and roof materials that will allow plants and mosses to grow on our buildings. Not only to increase bio diversity but also to improve the climate of our cities. More greenery cools down our cities and improves our wellbeing.
This semester there was a fruitful collaboration with the Botanical Gardens across from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. The Botanical gardens graciously lend their greenhouses to use for greenery experimentation. The semester led to a wide variety of final prototyping; from bio-rooftop tiles to ceramic pipe drains, from facade gabions and wooden facades that both house insects and birds to bio-based bricks that fully deteriorate at the end of its life span.
The Bucky Lab Master studio encourages students to design, develop and at the end build innovative building products. It’s a “get your hands dirty” approach in which the students learn how to translate concepts from sketch into working prototypes. The Bucky Lab tries to live the spirit of Buckminster Fuller: whatever you can imagine, you can also build!|
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More information about the course, the results and what’s going on now can be found here.
The opening hours of the botanical garden can be found here.
