Biohealer.ai

Design: Hangchuan Wei, Yuqian Gao, Xiaoying Fu, & Yuhan Wu, instructed by Richard Beckett Location: B-Pro, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 2022

Biohealer.AI is a novel design platform for embedding non-human biodiversity into buildings through the use of ML techniques which integrates complex ecological data sets towards nature-based design strategies. The projects utilises these data sets to inform tectonics which optimise the growth of micro-organism upon the building substratum. These ecologies in turn engage with the material condition to inform the physical and aesthetic phenomenon of ‘building ageing’ as a beneficial condition. This approach rejects the sterile obsession of modernism and the expectation that buildings should exhibit aesthetics of ‘newness’. Instead the ageing and in some cases, ruining, becomes a planned condition which exhibits time based reconfigurations of material and space within the building as part of the mixed use program.

Fig_1 Street view for the aged architectural proposal.

Fig_2 Street view for the aged architectural proposal.

Fig_3 Street view for the aged architectural proposal.

Fig_4 View on rooftop.

Fig_5 View from the courtyard.

Fig_6 Rendering of the building in different ageing stages.

Fig_7 Bird view.

Fig_8 Final prototype in B-pro show 2022.

Fig_9 Final prototype in B-pro show 2022.

Fig_10 Imaginary floorplan before ageing using GAN.

Fig_11 Imaginary floorplan after ageing using GAN.