Deepforest, re -ecology on domestic scale
Deepforest, is a microbial architectural Installation Developed by Ecological In collaboration with Insbrook University and Bartlet UCL. This project is part of V The Bacteria: Note towards Biotic Architecture Exhibition in 24th International Exhibition La Tranail de MilanoBeatries was cuisted by Colomina and Mark Vigley. The installation proposes a structured domestic space in the form of an active microbial ecosystem. It uses biotechnology systems to establish a functional relationship between architecture, biological processes and environmental conditions. The spatial arrangement includes components that make photosynthesis, biodegradation and carbon storage, creating an integrated biotic infrastructure.
The center of installation consists of three types of architectural components: photosynthetic, biodegraders and carbon stores. Photosynthetic, 50 liters filled with living cyanobacteria, actively capture the co from the gallery environment and convert it into oxygen and biomass. in glass Vessels are arranged to make a breath membrane, both walls and filters are alive with metabolic activity. Built from biodegraders 3D printed Bark shells Algae Biopolmer, host alive mycelium network. These fungi spends eat food on the coffee ground, grow in an easily available urban waste, and in dense, fibrous forms, which line up a living insulation, mimics birch tights, but are grown from synthetic cases. Carbon reserves, such as rebuked Wood Elements and active lychen colonies integrate with these systems, which stabilize and re -organize the aesthetics of the waste as aesthetics, convert the sub -products of decay into architectural jewelery.
All images by Jio Wang, Ecolaxystudio’s courtesy and synthetic landscape lab
Ecologicstudio merges biology with digital manufacture
Design strategy after ecologicstudio Team Comparing between historical intervention and microbial flexibility, italy aligns the architectural system with the history of Landscape Engineering of Italy. The spatial configuration compresses forest ecology on a controlled internal scale. The floors and wall assemblies include engraved and porous substrates, which enable air exchange, moisture retention and microbial colonies. ‘We are now more and more aware that our own nature is Siborian and collective, and that our own identity is more than the boundaries of our body. We are microbial ecosystems, we are algorithm networks. It is an essential result that our home becomes an extension of these ecosystems and networks. Our house is our microbiom, ‘ Share Pro. Claudia Passquero.
Establishment emphasizes the visibility of technical systems. Algae development chambers, mycelial substrates, air and co, pumps are exposed, both operative systems and formal features. This approach integrates mechanical and biological processes in architectural language rather than hiding them. The objective of the installation is to celebrate microbial architecture for the first time, which enters the Italian Temple of Design, Milano Trynell. I think this is an era moment. For this reason, we took great care in its design and detailing. Deepforest, actually exceeding only one temporary installation, it offers a completely functional and tangible biotechnology living system, based in the metabolic cycles of algae and fungi, but has been brought into life through bespoke digital design and unique material craftsmanship, ‘ Comments Dr. Marco Polleto.
Deepforest The Installation presented as La Trianell de Milano in 24th International Performance
Deepforest, Open-SUS Biotechnological Integration displays
A secondary feature of installation is the zola bench, which is made from modular cork blocks and honeycomb cardboard base. The bench is designed for live mycellium cultivation, which gradually replace the surface through colonies and mushroom development. This component displays real -time material change and user interactions with biologically active surfaces. Establishment supports cyclic material use, passive environmental modulation and open-source system integration. It is conceived as a domestic prototype for future biotechnical applications in architecture, emphasizes accessible and distributed farming of photosynthetic and fungal organisms within the environment created.
Deepforest, ecologicstudio and synthetic landscape lab are part of the ongoing research initiative. Parallel projects include Tree.on, Bio. Lab, Fundamentai, and Cryoflore, which expand this investigation at many international places including Venice Architecture Bienle, Bundeskunthal Bon and Mudk Lazen. The establishment opens to the public on May 12, 2025.
Visible system converts walls into a living, cyber-carbonic laboratory
Air pumps broadcast air and coâ‚‚, support algae and mycellium development
