In an era of rapid scientific and technological advancement, the radical ideas of yesteryear are becoming the reality of the present. 3D printing, adaptive architecture, biomimetics, synthetic biology and living technologies are challenging and driving new aesthetics, systems and relationships within the built environment.

 

LIDIA BADARNAH KADRI is an architect specialising in biomimetics, design concept generation, building envelope adaptation and urban design. She has a PhD from Delft University of Technology, and a B.Arch. (Cum Laude) from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She received the 1st prize of Israel and Leon Reiskin Award 2004/2005 for the originality and creativity graduation project. Her PhD dissertation proposes a strategic methodology, referred to as the living envelope methodology, for the generation of biomimetic design concepts. The methodology assists channelling the way from technical challenges, defined by the demands on the living envelope, through functional aspects and various strategies found in nature. Lidia has participated in academic activities, presented her work at international conferences, tutored research work, mentored MSc Projects on biomimetics, and organised and coordinated two international design workshops at TU Delft.

In an era of rapid scientific and technological advancement, the radical ideas of yesteryear are becoming the reality of the present. 3D printing, adaptive architecture, biomimetics, synthetic biology and living technologies are challenging and driving new aesthetics, systems and relationships within the built environment. In her quest to answer the question “how would nature design a city?”, Earth 2 Hub’s Head of Technology Melissa Sterry has met many of the pioneering figures that are exploring the far-reaching potential of new science, new technology and new thinking within both the cities of the present and of the near and far future.

Building as unusual: Wilfredo Mendez

In an era of rapid scientific and technological advancement, the radical ideas of yesteryear are becoming the reality of the present. 3D printing, adaptive architecture, biomimetics, synthetic biology and living technologies are challenging and driving new aesthetics, systems and relationships within the built environment. In her quest to answer the question “how would nature design a city?”, Earth 2 Hub’s Head of Technology Melissa Sterry has met many of the pioneering figures that are exploring the far-reaching potential of new science, new technology and new thinking within both the cities of the present and of the near and far future. In our exclusive new series ‘Building as Unusual’, Earth 2 Hub will introduce you to a handful of these figures and their ideas, so that you too can explore some of the exotic new architectural languages that are evolving - and consider how these may help us to build a better world.

Ilana Rein was born and raised in NYC. She started her career as a photographer with her work being widely exhibited at numerous galleries and published in Doubletake, Scientific American, Jane, 9/9 Paris and Art in America. Her films have been screened internationally in galleries, theaters and film festivals including Lincoln Center (New York Video Festival - now called Views from the Avant Guard), A.I.R., and Participant and reRun Theater, NYC.

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