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28-10-2020

INDUS v2.0 nominated for the Beasley Designs of the Year, in exhibition at the DESIGN MUSEUM, London.

Team: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz

Manufacturing: Richard Miller

Collaboration: Dali Al-Naeb, Tairan Lee

Team: Brenda Parker, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

13-10-2020

Guest lecture 'Poikilohydric Design - Self-regulated growth in bio-integrated design' at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Host: Lucija Azman Momirski

Speakers: Andrew Witt, Molly Wright Steenson, Manuel Jimenez, Marcos Cruz

9-13-09-2020

Bio-ID 'Hyperobject' and 'Luminous Crust' as part of the London Garden of Heterotopias / Bartlett School of Architecture UCL at the Ars Electronica Festival (in Keplers Garden), Linz, Austria.

Bartlett curator: Fiona Zisch

Bio-ID Organiser: Nina Jotanovic

Bartlett Participants: Interactive Architecture Lab, Automated Architecture Ltd/Automated Architecture Labs, Bio-ID, Unit 24, Unit 9, RC14. In partnership with Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Jason Bruges Studio, ScanLAB Projects, and guests

22-07-2020

Webinar talk Bio-integrated Design for SPOSAD workshop, at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan.

Organiser: Shnee-Ren Liu

3-07-2020

Bio-ID FINAL Year 2 CRITS - Day 2, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK (streamed online on youtube)

Critics: ChingHwa Chang, Taipei; Carlos Hernandez Correa, Bogota; Natsai Chieza, London, Suzanne Lee, New York; Amy Congdon, New York; Cobus Bothma, London; Gary Lye, London; Andrew Porter, London; Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz

2-07-2020

Bio-ID FINAL Year 2 CRITS - Day 1, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK (streamed online on youtube)

Critics: Mitchel Joachim, New York; David Benjamin, New York; Jane Withers, London; George Katodrytis, Dubai; Claudia Pasquero, London; Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz

22-06-2020

Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz and Kunal Chadha Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.

Students: Daria Ciobanu-Enescu; Hena Micoogullari; Pratik Girish Borse; Doruk Yildrim; Manan Jain; Logesh Mahalingam

Technical Support: Ricardo Mayor Luque
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
MAA2 coordination: Marco Ingrassia
Critics: Ana Goidea, Chiara Fariena, Nina Jotanovic, Areti Markopoulou; Alex Dubor, Raimund Krenmueller, Mathilde Marengo; Nuria Conde Pueyo; Khunaljit Chahda

12-06-2020

Webinar talk Bio-integrated Design for Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) - London and New York offices

Moderator: Cobus Bothma

11/12-06-2020

Bio-ID Year 1 CRIT, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.

Students: Vicky Panagiotidou, Charles Boyd, Madeline Baker, Shivani Rastogi, Gitanjali Ravi, Ella Hetherington, Mac van Dam, Prantar Tamuli, Isabelle Asakura, Nonna Shabanova, Sitthitouch Surabotsopon, Jorge Soto Parejas, Yao Zheyang, Ayelen Franceschini, Prathiksha Ravi, Saumya Gupta, Leyli Kursun, Dona Alalula, Perutxet Olesti, Ekaterina Baliaeva, Sohyun Ahn, Alexander Angelidis, Barna Soma Biro, Wen-chi Huang, Ouyang Ting Hong, Ningkang Wen
Critics: Bill Watts; Kunal Chadha; Carolina Ramirez; Barry Wark; Andreas Koerner; Iris Aquilina; Bogdan Zaha; Hina Lad; Damian Iliev; Deepak Rawat; Mauro Chiacchia; Gosia Pawlowska; Laura Stoffels; Bastian Bayer, Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz

9-06-2020

Webinar presentation at the Concrete Futures, The Concrete Centre / Building Centre, London

Speakers: Ciaran McNally, University College Dublin; Elizabeth Gilligan, Queen's University Belfast; Marcos Cruz, Bio-ID/UCL
Moderator/organiser: Elaine Toogood

22-05-2020

External Critic at CITA / Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), Copenhagen Denmark.

Organiser: Paul Nicholas
Critics: Phil Ayres, Martin Tamke, Marcos Cruz

27/28-05-2020

External Examiner at University College Cork (CCAE), Cork Ireland.

Head: Kevin McCartney

Examiners: Lorraine Farrelly, Reading University; John Parker, UCD; Marcos Cruz, Bartlett/UCL

26-04-2020

Poikilohydric Living Walls mentioned in the article 'Reasons to be cheerful: 11 great ideas from British universities that could change the world' by Rosie Kinchen and Katherine Forster, in THE SUNDAY TIMES, London UK.

"All the externally exposed surfaces of buildings and urban infrastructures, from blank walls and facades to roofs, retaining barriers and fences, offer vast quantities of area to absorb and store water," says Marcos Cruz, Professor of Innovative Environments at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture. The answer is "bio-integrated architecture", specifically walls friendly to poikilohydric plants - algae, mosses and lichens. These plants such up water and pollutants, pump out oxygen and, unlike traditional "green walls", can deal with lengthly dry spells. The team at UCL has developed a poikilohydric wall made of porous concrete, which is being tested in London at East Putney Tube station and a primary school in Lambeth.

Open until 31th July 2020

Bio-ID

Applications open for the MArch / MSc in Bio-Integrated Design, The Bartlett UCL, London UK.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc

Instagram: Bio-ID

These two design-led Master's degrees respond to the impact of biotechnology, computation and climate change on the built environment. Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) takes these fields of study as the foundation for developing novel and sophisticated design solutions to shape the future of our cities.  

Taught jointly by The Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL’s Biochemical Engineering Department, Bio-ID combines design experimentation with scientific methods, seeking new modes of simulation and production, and exploring how advances in the fields of synthetic biology, material science and digital fabrication is changing future design practices.  

Two distinct Bio-ID programmes are available: an MArch degree and an MSc degree. Applicants will be able to apply depending on their background and whether they seek to specialise in more exclusively design or more science-driven outputs.

Bio-Integrated Design is part of B-Pro, a group of five programmes at The Bartlett with a unique shared philosophy.  

HIGHLIGHTS 

• Work with an interdisciplinary team of designers and scientists to establish new forms of design • Develop an advanced knowledge of technologies and working methods, which may include digital simulations, synthetic biology and biotechnology and digital fabrication 

• Design innovative bio-integrated systems with a variety of applications in architecture

KEY STAFF

• Professor Marcos Cruz (Programme Director MArch and MSc Bio-ID, Year 1/2 tutor)

• Dr Brenda Parker (Programme Director MSc Bio-ID, Year 1/2 tutor)

• Javier Ruiz (Year 1/2 Tutor / Computation)

• Nina Jotanovic (Year 1 tutor)

• Shneel Malik (Year 1 tutor)

• Anete Salmane (Bio-ID lab)
• Dr Bastian Beyer (Year 2 tutor)
• Dr Harry Watkins (Year 1 tutor / Thesis)
• Shogo Suzuki (Year 1 computation)

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

 • Please check the Bartlett website for more information

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc

3/4/5-03-2020

Poikilohydric Living Wall panel in exhibition at FUTUREBUILD 2020, as part of The Concrete Centre / MPA exhibition - Concrete Futures / Remixed, London UK.

Organisation: The Concrete Centre

Venue: ExCeL centre, London

Team: Marcos Cruz with Javier Ruiz and Richard Beckett, with collaboration of Nina Jotanovic and Anete Salmane.

Biology: Alex Lacatusu, Giovanna Lanius-Pascuzzi

Manufacturing: Pennine Stone Limited

Speaker: Dr Brenda Parker

Photo credit: Brenda Parker

03-03-2020

Poikilohydric Living Walls published in Concrete Futures (cover and mentioned in article by Tony Whitehead), The Concrete Centre, London UK.

23-02-2020

Bartlett Bio-ID and PhD candidate, Shneel Malik, presents INDUS project at TEDxGateway, Mumbai India.

Photo credit: TEDxGatway

27-01-2019

Presentation at CNIE - advisory board conference, London UK.

Venue: Prince Room, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP

Lead of CNIE/introduction: Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens (UCL Chemical Engineering)

Speakers: Prof Eugene Goldfield (Harvard); Prof Philip Treveaven (UCL Computer Science); Prof Richard Day (UCL Medical Sciences); Prof Marcos Cruz (UCL The Bartlett); Prof Hugh Stitt (Johnson Matthey); Dr Niall Kent; Malica Schmidt; Matthew Chin; Dr Nazanin Owji; Dr Ye Yang; Dr Yang Lan; Dr Jason Cho

Guest Speakers: Anna Liu (Tonkin Liu)

January 2020

Publication of Poikilohydric Living Walls / Marcos Cruz, in Étapes pp.168-170, Paris France.

Text: Leo Bufi

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

Photo credit (walls): Sarah Lever

10-01-2020

External Examination / PhD VIVA of Dr Areti Markopoulou - Design Behaviours / Programming the Material World for Resposnive Architecture (Cum Laude), at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAB), Barcelona Spain.

Examiners: Marcos Cruz (Chair); Jose Ballesteros (deputy chair); Jaime Coll (secretary); Jaume Valor (deputy secretary); Lydia Kallipoloti; Javier Nieto; Ignacio Borrego;

Supervisors: Eduardo Bru, Manuel Gausa

Photo credit: Mathilde Marengo

12/13-12-2019

Bio-ID Crit at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.

Students: (Year 2) Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar; (Year 1) Vicky Panagiotidou, Charles Boyd, Madeline Baker, Shivani Rastogi, Gitanjali Ravi, Ella Hetherington, Mac van Dam, Prantar Tamuli, Isabelle Asakura, Nonna Shabanova, Sitthitouch Surabotsopon, Jorge Soto Parejas, Yao Zheyang, Ayelen Franceschini, Prathiksha Ravi, Saumya Gupta, Leyli Kursun, Dona Alalula, Perutxet Olesti, Ekaterina Baliaeva, Sohyun Ahn, Alexander Angelidis, Barna Soma Biro, Wen-chi Huang, Ouyang Ting Hong, Ningkang Wen
Critics: Prof Omar Kahn, Prof Phillip Beasley, Prof Jon Yoder, Justin Nichols, Barry Buckland, Dr Naveraj Gill, Andreas Koerner, Barry Wark, Lilah Fowler, Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, Prof Mike Hoare, Dr Mike Sulu, Dr Bastian Bayer, Dr Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Prof Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

14-11-2019

Bio-ID with work of Nina Jotanovic 'Biogenic Luminosity' in exhibition at Share X, Bucharest, Romania.

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

14-11-2019

Interview for 'Designing the profile fo the Future Architecture' by Andrea Robu-Movila, Bucharest, Romania.

14-11-2019

Keynote speaker at Share X - Conference of Advanced Architecture, Bucharest, Romania.

Speakers: Sanjai Puri; Spela Videcnik; Bogdan Zaha; Mariano Efron; Pepe Gascon; Vlad Temu; Lara Zureikat; Natalie Redford; Anna Wendt

Photo credit: Vlad Dediu

08-11-2019

Design with the Living, Design Museum, London UK.

Organisers: Barnard Hay, Carole Collet, Brenda Parker, Helene Steiner, Marcos Cruz

Speakers: Brenda Parker, Carole Collet, Nina Jotanovic, Helene Steiner, Elvin Karana, Marcus Walker, Nancy Diniz, Thomas Meany, Martyn Dade-Robertson
Chairs: Marcos Cruz, Carole Collet, Helene Steiner
Introduction: Justin McGuirk
Keynote lecture: Natsai Audrey Chieza

19-10-2019

Bioreceptive component in show at Beyond the Horizon - Design for Different Futures, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.

Photo credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art

October 2019

Bioreceptive Lightweight Concrete featured in 'Designs for Different Futures - catalogue of the Beyond the Horizon - Design for Different Futures exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, USA.

Editors: Kathryn B Hiesinger, Michelle Millar, Fisher, Emmet Byrne, Maite Borjabad Lopez Pastor, Zoe Ryan

September 2019

Bio-Integrated Design - Marcos Cruz interviewed by Jordi Vivaldi, in IaaC Bits / Black Ecologies pp. 76-89, Barcelona Spain.

Editors: Manuel Gausa, Areti Markopoulou, Jordi Vivaldi

24-09-2019

Bio-ID in show at B.PRO Final Exhibition, London UK.

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

19-09-2019

Bio-ID with work of Nina Jotanovic 'Biogenic Luminosity' in exhibition at Biodesign Here and Now, Open Cell (as part of the London Design Week), London UK.

Exhibition: Nina Jotanovic with Gea van der Kerkhof and Silvia Vignolini (Cambridge University)

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

14-09-2019

Bio-ID with INDUS in exhibition at Brompton Design Festival (as part of the London Design Week), London UK.

Project: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz
Technical Collaboration: Laura Stoffels, Anete Salmane, Kayan Patel
Fabrication: Froyle Tiles
Support: Pure Earth and Delhi University India; Algae UK and EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

Marcos Cruz, Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker

Photo credit: Wanda Hu

August 2020

INDUS/Bio-ID project (winner of Future Systems and Infrastructure + wiiner of Audience Award) published in 'Where will the water come from / One Year of Water Futures' pp. 181-184, A/D/O research 0001, New York USA.

Team: Shneel Malik, Dr Brenda Parker, Prof Marcos Cruz

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

12-07-2019 (15-07-2019 - 13-09.2019)

Opening Bio-ID in exhibition at the 'New Forms of Practice / Drivers of Change' show, ARUP gallery, London UK.

Exhibition curators: Ruairi Glynn, Jennifer Greitschus
Exhibition teams: Design for Manufacturing (DfM); Design for Performance and Interaction (DfPI); Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Table design: Marcos Cruz with Shneel Malik and Nina Jotanovic
Table assembly/curation: Marcos Cruz; Brenda Parker; Nina Jotanovic; Shneel Malik; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz with Bio-ID students
Bio-ID participants: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar; Nina Jotanovic; Shneel Malik; Anete Salmane/Marcos Cruz

Panel discussion: Brenda Parker (Bio-ID/UCL Biochemical engineering); Sara Caddik (Thalamic); Bob Sheil (Bartlett); Tristram Carfrae (Arup)

Bio-ID Table of Curiosities

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

The Amazing Bio-ID team!

Photo credit: Ram Shergill

The whole Bio-ID group with students, Paolo Bombelli, Lena Asai (only Javier Ruiz missing)

Photo credit: Ram Shergill

Table Ecology

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz
Photo credit: Ram Shergill

10-07-2019

Guest lecture at the IaaC Global Summer School, 2019.
Simultaneous broadcasting: Manila/Philippines, Monterrey/Mexico, Pune/India, Barcelona/Spain, Melbourne/Australia, Dubai/UAE, Istanbul/Turkey, Tehran/Iran, Beirut/Lebanon.
Organisers/hosts: Aldo Sollazzo, Laura Ruggeri, Rodrigo Aguirre

28-06-2019

CRIT of Bio-ID at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.

Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: Ricardo de Ostos, Maj Plemenitas, Bastian Bayer, Andrew Porter, Bob Sheil, Bill Watts, Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Lena Asai; Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

24-25.06.2019

Bio-ID in exhibition at the SYNBITECH 2019, London.

Venue: Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster London
Bio-ID work exhibited: Nina Jotanovic

Bio-ID panel discussion speaker: Brenda Parker
Curator: Helene Steiner

Photo credit: Nina Jotanovic

25-06-2019

Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.

Students: Elliott Santos; Yasmina El Helou; Marc Bou Assaf; Umit Ceren Bayazitoiglu; Abishek Soman

Technical Support: Khunaljit Chahda; Ricardo Mayor Luque
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
MAA2 coordination: Marco Ingrassia
Critics: Aldo Sollazzo; Paolo Bombelli; Areti Markopoulou; Mathilde Marengo; Nuria Conde Pueyo; Khunaljit Chahda; Marco Ingrassia

work by Umit Ceren Bayazitoiglu

work by Elliott Santos

work by Abishek Soman

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

10-05-2019

Presentation and panel discussion - Nature Salons / Encouraging Growth - as part of the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York USA.

Chair: Andrea Lipps

Speakers (second session): Amy Congdon, Richard Beckett, Marcos Cruz

9-05-2019

2 bioreceptive panels in exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial - Nature (in collaboration with CUBE GALLERY, Netherlands), Smithsonian Design Museum, New York USA.

Bartlett Team: Marcos Cruz with Richard Beckett and Javier Ruiz

Curators: Caitlin Condell, Andrea Lipps, Matilda McQuaid
Participants:  UNDERSTAND NATURE   -  Kim Albrecht and Barabási Lab, Northeastern University (Germany and United States); Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja, Cave Architects (Kenya); Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, Ensamble Studio (Spain and United States); Tracy Fullerton, Game Innovation Lab, University of Southern California (United States); Aliki van der Kruijs (The Netherlands); Giorgia Lupi, Accurat and Kaki King (Italy and United States); Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler, Mischer’Traxler Studio (Austria); Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design for Banfield Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (United States)
Thomas Thwaites (United Kingdom); Charles Reilly, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States); James Weaver, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States) -  SIMULATE NATURE -
Airbus, Autodesk, and APWorks (The Netherlands, United States, and Germany); Ramille Shah and Adam E. Jakus, Dimension Inx LLC & Adam Jakus Technology as Art (United States); Festo AG & Co. KG (Germany); Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Sissel Tolaas, and Christina Agapakis, Ginkgo Bioworks (United Kingdom, Norway, and United States); Alexandra Kehayoglou (Argentina); Mathieu Lehanneur (France); Jifei Ou and Hiroshi Ishii, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Michelin (France); Modern Meadow (United States); Gabriel Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil, threeASFOUR and Travis Fitch (United States); David Mooney, Mooney Lab for Cell and Tissue Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States) -  SALVAGE NATURE -  Adidas and Parley (Germany and United States); Studio Eric Klarenbeek and Atelier Luma (The Netherlands and France); Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck, Atelier NL (The Netherlands); Anirudh Sharma, Graviky Labs (India); Shahar Livne (The Netherlands); Julia Lohmann, Violaine Buet, and Jon Lister (Finland, France, and New Zealand); Kirstie Van Noort (The Netherlands) -  FACILITATE NATURE - Ginger Krieg Dosier, bioMASON (United States); Amy Congdon (United States); Natsai Audrey Chieza, Faber Futures (United Kingdom); Alex Goad, Reef Design Lab (Australia); Caleb Harper and Hildreth England, Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg), MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Erez Nevi Pana (Austria); Arturo Vittori, Architecture and Vision and Warka Water Inc. (Italy and United States); Xu Tiantian, DnA_Design and Architecture (China) -  AUGMENT NATURE -  Sam Van Aken (United States); Sputniko! and Masaya Kushino, Another Farm (Japan); Guillermo Parada, Tamara Pérez, Sebastián Rozas, and Victor Imperiale, gt2P (great things to People) (Chile); Josiah Zayner, The Open Dictionary Institute (The ODIN) (United States); Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Living Materials Silklab, Tufts University Biomedical Engineering (United States); Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, The Tissue Culture and Art Project (Australia); Richard Novak, Elizabeth Calamari, and Chuck Hoberman, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States) -  REMEDIATE NATURE -  Coeio (United States); Ulrika K. Stigsdotter, University of Copenhagen (Denmark); Harvard Biodesign Lab, Harvard University (United States); Nienke Hoogvliet, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet (The Netherlands); Fernando Laposse (United Kingdom); Sheng-Hung Lee (Taiwan); Max Liboiron, CLEAR (Canada); Charlotte McCurdy (United States); Terreform ONE (United States) -  NURTURE NATURE -  Marcos Cruz with Richard Beckett and Javier Ruiz, Bartlett UCL (United Kingdom); Teresa Van Dongen (The Netherlands); Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (United Kingdom); Jorge Gamboa (Mexico); MASS Design Group (United States); Michael Strano and Seon-Yeong Kwak, MIT Chemical Engineering and Sheila Kennedy, MIT Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Sambuichi Architects (Japan); Vo Trong Nghia (VTN) Architects (Vietnam)

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

22-04-2019

Interview with Marcos Cruz on bioreceptive walls mentioned in article 'The home of the future could be powered by microbes', published in One Zero (article by Thomas McMullan) 2019.

12-04-2019 (until 12-09-2019)

Bio-ID in exhibition at the 'Worda / Water' show, Zamek Ceiszyn, Poland.

Venue: Zamek Ceiszyn
Bio-ID work exhibited: INDUS / Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz

Curator: Katarzyna Dorda

Photo credit: Katarzyna Dorda

4-04-2019

Bio-ID wins the Water Design Future's international competition (category Systems and Infrastructures + Public Vote!) with project INDUS - the future of water remediation + exhibition at ADO gallery, New York USA.

Organisation: A/D/O

Team: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cuz, with collaboration of Laura Stoffles

Photo credit: Shneel Malik

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

30-03-2019

Presentation at the symposium Vertigo / La Fabrique du Vivant, at IRCAM / Centre Pompidou, Paris France.

Organisation: Marie-Ange Brayer, Olivier Zeitoun

Speakers: Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros (artist), Maurizio Montalti (Officina Corpuscoli, The Netherlands), David Benjamin (architect), Teresa van Dongen (designer), Guillian Graves (designer), Stéphane Douady (physicist, director of research CNRS), Amy Karle (artist), Hongjie Yang (designer, researcher), Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (artist, designer), Julian Melchiorri (engineer, designer), Donald Ingberg (biologist and director of the Wyss Institute, University of Harvard), Philippe Marlière (biologist), Claudia Pasquero (architect, EcologicStudio), Anouk Legendre (XTU Architects, Paris), Spela Petric (artist), Jean Luc Hervé (composer), Annick Lesne (physicist, director of research CNRS), and Marcos Cruz (architect, Bio-ID).

5/7-03-2019

Bioreceptive Panel in exhibition at FUTUREBUILD 2019, as part of The Concrete Centre / MPA exhibition - The Shape of Things to Come, London UK.

Organisation: The Concrete Centre

Venue: ExCeL centre, London

Team: Marcos Cruz with Javier Ruiz and Richard Beckett, with collaboration of Nina Jotanovic and Anete Salmane.

Biology: Rushi Mehta

Manufacturing: Pennine Stone Limited

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

18-02-2019

Bio-ID (Marcos Cruz, Brenda Parker with Shneel Malik) in exhibition at 'La Fabrique du Vivant', Centre Pompidou, (as part of the series Mutations/Creations 3), Paris France.

Curators: Marie-Ange Brayer; Olivier Zeitoun
Participants: Shamees Aden ; Laure Albin Guillot ; François Azambourg ; Heather Barnett ; Sonja Baümel et Manuel Selg ; BCL (Georg Tremmel + Shiho Fukuhara); Hicham Berrada ; Burton Nitta (Michael Burton et Michiko Nitta) ; Julian Charrière ; Natsai Audrey Chieza ; Carole Collet ; Amy Congdon ; Marcos Cruz & Brenda Parker (Bio-ID Lab, The Bartlett School); The Disease Biophysics Group de l’Université d’Harvard ; Alexandre Echasseriau ; Jonas Edvard ; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Christina Agapakis et Sissel Tolaas ; Lia Giraud ; Guillian Graves (Big Bang Project) ; Andreas Greiner ; Ernst Haeckel ; Perry Hall ; Jean-Luc Hervé ; Marlène Huissoud ; Eduardo Kac ; Amy Karle ; Allison Kudla ; Joris Laarman ; The Living (David Benjamin) ; Julia Lohmann ; Julian Melchiorri ; MIT Media Lab (Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao) ; Mogu ; Isaac Monté ; Gabriela Munguia ; Officina Corpuscoli ; Neri Oxman & The Mediated Matter Group, MIT ; Jean Painlevé ; Claudia Pasquero et Marco Poletto (EcoLogicStudio); Institut Pasteur ; Špela Petrič ; PILI (Marie-Sarah Adenis) ; Pamela Rosenkranz ; Daan Roosegaarde ; Karl Sims ; Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi et Simone Farresin) ; Studio Nienke Hoogvliet (Nienke Hoogvliet) ; Studio Klarenbeek & Dros ; Studio Libertiny (Tomas Libertiny) ; The Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr) en collaboration avec Robert Foster ; Samuel Tomatis ; Urban Morphogenesis Lab (The Bartlett UCL) ; Tim van Cromvoirt ; Teresa van Dongen ; Elaine Whittaker ; Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; Wyss Institute de l’Université d’Harvard ; XTU Architects (Anouk Legendre et Nicolas Desmazières) ; Hongjie Yang ; Tokujin Yoshioka
Venue: Centre Pompidou, Paris
Dates: 20.02.19 - 15.04.19

Marcos Cruz and Shneel Malik

looking at 50cm dishes for bioremediation/biosorption/biophotovoltaic research

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

Bioreceptive Wall panels

Design for the St Anne's Catholic Primary School in London

Photo credit: Sarah Lever

January 2019

Interview 'Interdisciplinary Architecture Approaches - with Marcos Cruz', published in Arredamento MIMARLIK (ed Idil Yucel Inal), Turkey, 2019 (pp. 51-57).

03-12-2018

Shortlisted project submission INDUS - the future of water remediation for the Water Design Futures, NY USA.

Category: Systems and Infrastructure

Team: Bio-ID Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz with Laura Stoffels, In partnership with Grymsdyke Farm

Collaboration: Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Ian Robinson; Dali Alnaeb; Yara Gadah; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar

Support: Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL Biochemical Engineering

Photo credit: Shneel Malik

30-10-2018

Guest Lecture at American University of Sharjah, UAE.

Host: Juan Roldan

19-10-2018

CRIT of Bio-ID at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.

Students: Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Ian Robinson; Dali Alnaeb; Yara Gadah; Marie Pontais; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Lena Asai; Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

10.10.2018

Guest talk at Biomaterial Platform / Fashion Department, Royal College of Art, London UK.

Host: Thomas Meany

06.10.2018

Book chapter 'Paramateriality - Novel Biodigital Manifolds' published in Architectural Materialisms - Nonhuman creativity (ed. Maria Voyatzaki), Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Contributors: Lars Spuybroek, Julienna Preston, Jen Archer-Martin, Fernando Zalamea, Mark Burry, Pia Ednie-Brown, Luciana Parisi, Manuel de Landa, Vera Buhlman, J Parikka, Kas Oosterhuis, Marcos Cruz

03-10-2018

C-BIOM.A - computation, bio-materials and architecture

Kick start of Marcos Cruz studio MAA 02, at Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.

Tutor: Marcos Cruz
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
Students: Marc Bou Assaf; Umit Ceren Bayazitoglu; Elliott Santos; Abhishek Soman; Yasmina El Helou

29-09-2017

Bio-ID, Bartlett UCL, London UK.

Kick-start of 2018/19
Tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz; Dr Brenda Parker, Javier Ruiz, Nina Jotanovic,

Students : Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Ian Robinson; Dali Alnaeb; Yara Gadah; Marie Pontais; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar

Photo credit: Shneel Malik

21.09.2018

Speaker of Round table discussion at Designjunctions - London Design Festival, London UK.

Speakers: Marin Sawa, Natsai Chieza, Marcos Cruz

Moderator: Carole Collet

21.09.2018

Chair of talks at BioDesign/Here and Now - London Design Festival, Open Cell, London UK.

Speakers: Barry Wark, Carolina Ramirez Figueroa, Shneel Malik, Ehab Sayed, Jackie Marshall

25-09-2018

B.PRO Final Exhibition, London UK.

Tutors: Marcos Cruz; Richard Beckett; Javier Ruiz

Students: Chen Shen; Yufei Lin; Lingwei Shi; Qi Cheng; Dan Liu; Yixin Liu; Xiaoqi Wang; Wenxuan Li; Junpeng Lyu; Xiaoqi Yu; Tian Du; Kexin Zhang; Yanghui Yan

18-09-2018

Bio-ID: Exhibition opening at BioDesign - Here and Now, as part of the London Design Festival, London UK.

Venue: The Laundry Yard, Shepherds Bush Market, W12 8DW
Organisers: Open Cell

http://biodesignherenow.webflow.io/exhibitors

Curators of Bio-ID show: Marcos Cruz and Nina Jotanovic
Design of structure: Javier Ruiz
Participants at Bio-ID show: Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Malika Schmidt, Brenda Parker, Javier Ruiz, Richard Beckett, Paolo Bombelli

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

July 2018

Book chapter 'Bio-Integrated Design' published in Meeting Nature Halfway (ed. Marjan Colletti), Innsbruck University Press, 2018.

Contributors: Robert Stuart Smith, Yael Reisner, Kristina Schinegger, Theodore Spyropoulos, Stefan Rutzinger, Bart Lootsma, Peter Cook, Marcos Cruz, et al.

22-06-2018
Opening of Unit 20 exhibition at Bartlett Summer Show 2018, London UK.
Guest opener: Eva Jiricna

Venue: 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB

Unit 20 tutors: Marcos Cruz; Marjan Colletti; Javier Ruiz
Installation design: Javier Ruiz
Unit 20 installation with work of: Shi Qi Kiki Tu; Yi Liong; Fadhil Fadhil; Yinghua Chen; Daryl Brown; Cristina Manta; Yulia Amaral; Egmontas Geras; Sophie Tait; Toby Petyt; Brian Cheung; Levent Ozruh; Naomi de Bar; Tran Hon Lien; Daniel Krajnik; Hsin Tsai; William Ashworth

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

20.06.2018

Speaker of round table discussion 'Digital Matter' - Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona Spain.

Speakers: Maria Aiolova (Terreform ONE); Laia Mogas (TUFTS/MIT); Giovanni Perotto (Smart Material Group/IIT); Irene Gallou (Smart Modelling Group / Foster and Partners); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett UCL)
Moderator: Areti Markopoulou (IaaC)

29-05-2018

Validation of Masters of Architecture and Urbanism - AADRL, Architectural Association, London UK.
Organisation: Open University

Validation panel: Rachael Luck (Chair, OU); Prof Marcos Cruz (Bartlett); Dr Harriet Harriss (RCA); Prof Flora Samuels (Reading University/RIBA); Dr Anthony Lloyd (Westminster University)

25/26-04-2018

Jury Chair of the international architecture competition Hsinta Ecological Power Plant (conceptual stage 2 - final selection), Taipei Taiwan.
Organiser: Barry Cheng / Taiwan Power

Venue: Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, Taipei
Jury: Chinghwa Chang (Bio-Architecture Formosana); Charles Waldheim (Harvard University); Sungkyun Kim (Seoul National University); Monica Kuo (Digital Earth Research Centre/Chinese Culture University Taiwan); Chung Twn Kuo (LEB); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett)

Competition Entry by Morphosis Architects, Los Angeles (1st prize)

1st prize - Morphosis (Thom Mayne), Los Angeles USA
2nd prize - Leers Weinzapfel (Andrea Leers & Jane Weinzapfel), Boston USA
3rd prize - Marine Environment and engineering Institute / National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Honorable Mention - Rassano Garcia Arquitetos (Pedro Rassano Garcia), Lisbon Portugal
Honorable Mention - Sung Goo Yang, Korea/USA

30-03-2018

Marcos Cruz and BiotA Lab mentioned in article "Concrete is Becoming Smarter, More Sustainable and Beautiful" (by Elizabeth Pagliacolo), in Azure magazine, Toronto Canada.

19-02-2018

Newly launched MArch / MSc in Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID), Bartlett UCL.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc

These two new design-led Master's degrees respond to the impact of biotechnology, computation and climate change on the built environment. Bio-Integrated Design takes these fields of study as the foundation for developing novel and sophisticated design solutions to shape the future of our cities.

Taught jointly by The Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL’s Biochemical Engineering Department, Bio-integrated Design combines design experimentation with scientific methods, seeking new modes of simulation and production, and exploring how advances in the fields of synthetic biology, material science and digital fabrication is changing future design practices.

Two distinct Bio-Integrated Design programmes are available: an MArch degree and an MSc degree. Applicants will be able to apply depending on their background and whether they seek to specialise in more exclusively design or more science-driven outputs.

Bio-Integrated Design is part of B-Pro, a group of five programmes at The Bartlett with a unique shared philosophy.

HIGHLIGHTS
•    Work with an interdisciplinary team of designers and scientists to establish new forms of design
•    Develop an advanced knowledge of technologies and working methods, which may include digital simulations, synthetic biology and biotechnology and digital fabrication
•    Design innovative bio-integrated systems with a variety of applications

KEY STAFF
Programme Directors
•    Professor Marcos Cruz (MArch and MSc BioID)
•    Dr Brenda Parker (MSc BioID)

STARTING DATE
•    September 2018

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
•    Please check the Bartlett website for more information
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc

13-02-2018

BiotA Lab / rC7 Crits, Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Critics: Maj Plemenitas, Gilles Retsin, Richard Beckett; Javier Ruiz; Anete Salmane, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Marcos Cruz

25/26-01-2018

Jury Chair of the international architecture competition Hsinta Ecological Power Plant (conceptual stage 1), Kaohsiung Taiwan.
Organiser: Barry Cheng / Taiwan Power

Venue: Grand Hi-Lai Hotel Kaohsiung
Jury: Chinghwa Chang (Bio-Architecture Formosana); Charles Waldheim (Harvard University); Sungkyun Kim (Seoul National University); Monica Kuo (Digital Earth Research Centre/Chinese Culture University Taiwan); Chung Twn Kuo (LEB); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett)

21-12-2017

C-Biom.A end-of-term Crits, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Venue: IaaC Barcelona
Critics: Areti Markopoulou; Maria Kuptsova; Kunaljit Singh Chadha; Valentina Toscano; Marcos Cruz

8-12-2017

Interview by Elizabeth Pagliacolo for the Azure magazine, Toronto Canada.

7-12-2017

BiotA Lab exhibits at Biofabricate 2017, New York USA.
Venue: New Lab

Chief Organiser: Suzanne Lee

Exhibition curator: Amy Congdon

Exhibits: BiotA Lab / Shneel Malik - Viscous Biomaterials for Application in Architecture; BiotA Lab / Hoda Eskandar Nia, Eleni Dourampei, Yuan JHuang, Ziwei Zhao with Dr Paolo Bombelli and Dr Brenda Parker - Architecture Biophotovoltaics

BiotA Lab / Shneel Malik

Viscous Biomaterials for Application in Architecture

BiotA Lab / Hoda Eskandar Nia, Eleni Dourampei, Yuan JHuang, Ziwei Zhao

with Dr Paolo Bombelli and Dr Brenda Parker

Architecture Biophotovoltaics

Photo credit: Core77

5-12-2017

Workshop/seminar session with Bartlett students held at the Shukhov Lab, Moscow Russia.
Venue: Shukhov Lab

Organiser: Elena Mitro

Photo credit: Shukhov Lab

December 2017

Published interview "La imperfeccion como oportunidad" (by Martin Cobas), in Entrevistas 3, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo Uruguay, pp.70-91

Editor: Sandra Moresino

Other interviews: Giancarlo Mazzanti, Pekka Korvenmaa, Felipe Correa, Francesca Zampollo, Jose Rosas Vera, Benoit Peeters, Marcelo Ferraz

27-11-2017

Interview by Carlos Aguirre Diez for the Radio Circulo - Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid Spain.

Venue: The Bartlett School of Architecture

23/24-11-2017

Jury member of the selection panel for the Professorship 'Bildnerische Gestaltung und Entwerfen' Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck Austria.
Chair: Prof Marjan Colletti
Members: Prof Barts Lootsma (Dean); Prof Kristina Schinegger; Prof Gabriela Seifert-Kavan; Clements Plank; Rames Najjar; Maria Sadner; Verena Rauch; Simone Rautschek; Prof Marcos Cruz

15-11-2017

Interview by Jordi Vivaldi and Chiara Cesareo for the journal IaaC Bits / Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona Spain.

Venue: IaaC Barcelona

26-10-2017

Interview by George Bull for the Bartlett Review, London UK.

Venue: The Bartlett School of Architecture

19-10-2017

Keynote lecture at the Stone Design Show, Antalya Turkey.
Host: Osman Arayici

10-10-2017

Lecture 'Bio-integrated Design', as part of the Future Making / Future Materials talks, Royal College of Art, London UK.
Venue: Royal College of Art
Speakers: Chris Lefteri and Marcos Cruz
Moderator: Evan Raskob
Organisation: MA Design Products and the School of Design

05-10-2017

BiotA Lab / rC7 MArch Architectural Design, Bartlett UCL, London UK.

Start of Biotechnology and Architecture Lab 2017/18 - Extreme Environments
Tutors of rC7: Prof Marcos Cruz, Richard Beckett, Javier Ruiz
Thesis tutor: Shneel Malik
Students: Qi Cheng; Tian Du; Wenxuan Li; Yufei Lin; Dian Liu; Yixin Liu; Junpeng Lyu; Chen Shen; Lingwei Shi; Xiaoqi Wang; Yanghui Yan; Xiaoqing Yu; Kexin Zhang

04-10-2017

C-BIOM.A - computation, bio-materials and architecture

Kick start of Marcos Cruz studio MAA 02, at Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.

Tutor: Marcos Cruz

Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo

Students: Catalina Puello; Johana Monroy; Shalini Brahma; Zina Alkhani; Antoniette Elchidiac; Evelina Ilina; Fabio Rivera

29-09-2017

Unit 20 MArch Architecture, Bartlett UCL, London UK.

Kick-start of 2017/18
Tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz; Prof Marjan Colletti; Javier Ruiz

Students: Shi Qi Tu; Yi Liong; Fadhil Fadhil; Yinghua Chen; Daryl Brown; Cristina Manta; Yulia Amaral; Christina Grytten; Daniel Krajnik; Egmontas Geras; Hong Lien Tran; Hsin Fang Tasi; Naomi de Barr; Sophie Tait; William Ashworth; Yan Cheung; Levent Ozruh; Tobias Petyt; Jevgenij Rodionov; Howell

Photo credit: Alexander Semenov (Cyanea Nude)

NATURE 2.0
 CONSTRUCTING THE AVANT-GARDE
In a time of radical change, we architects are asked to develop a new attitude in which design adjusts to a new world order, determined by environmental transformations, socio-political confrontations and technological advances. We need to rethink our practice in search of a new disciplinary Avant-garde that is in tune with the challenges of the 21st century.
This year's field trip across the vast Russian landscape, from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, will act as departure point for our investigations. Historically, we will take the Constructivist legacy as a key inspiration for how to break away from outmoded or simply obsolete traditions. We will delve into its visionary approach, investigating the proclaimed social agendas, and explore the conceptual and formal influence that this pivotal movement had on so many leading contemporary architects. Most notably, Deconstructivism finds some of its roots in early 20th century Soviet Constructivism...
As one of the few real Avant-garde moments of our history, Constructivism was obsessed with abstract and dynamic compositional values that were embedded within a mechanistic culture. Today, however, we live in a post-digital era where cultural and technological parameters have fundamentally shifted. Instead of 'machine' we have machine-learning, AI (artificial intelligence) and robotisation. In parallel, 'nature' has taken on a new role on the frontline of design, research and innovation.
Unit 20 has looked for many years into nature as source of inspiration and subject of design. We have explored it with the use of physical model making and advanced digital tools, searching for new environmentally-driven designs that are typologically and tectonically novel.
This year we are asking students to define the emergence of their own architectural Avant- garde. We will embrace design paradigms that look at nature 2.0 as an open toolbox of and for innovation and area of action. We will explore nature’s extraordinary geometric and material complexity; find environmentally-sensitive solutions in the extreme climate of Russia; work with its unpredictable and adaptable intelligence; and make use of its immense beauty. Programmatically we will focus on projects that will tackle various critical contemporary issues: from artificial to natural, from mobility to housing, from industry to landscape, from high-tech to low-tech, from State to Church... The projects will be sited in Saint Petersburg - Russia’s cultural hub and imperial city (for 4th years), and Moscow - Russia’s sprawling capital of mighty power (for 5th years).

29-09-2017

Filmed Interview: Marcos Cruz on future architecture for the Venice Biennale, Bartlett UCL, London UK.

Interview by Tom Kovac

26-09-2017

BiotA Lab at B.PRO Final Exhibition, London UK.

GOLD AWARD for Bioreceptive Hydrogel Photovoltaics (tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz and Dr Chris Leung with support of Dr Brenda Parker, Dr Paolo Bombelli, Prof Mario Carpo and Oliver Wilton)

HONOURABLE MENTION for Bioreceptive Acoust Wall (tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz and Javier Ruiz with support of Ruby Law, Paul Bavister, Gary Grant and Shneel Malik)

Installation design: Javier Ruiz, Marcos Cruz; Richard Beckett

Students: Hoda Eskandar Nia; Wei Ziwei Zhao; Mirella Eleni Dourampei; Yuan Huang; Hao Ding; Jeng-Ying Li; Idil Seren Yucel Inal; Sara Eljamal; Marisa Dewi; Yi Li; Sung Min Rhee; Ciao Xiao; Mia Leyi Qi; Jian Zhou; Lingyu Gou; Xinyu Wu; Gang Mao; Xu Si; Bowen Zhang; Shengtao Luo; Mu-Ching Tsai

BIOTA LAB EXHIBITION SPACE

BIORECEPTIVE HYDROGEL PHOTOVOLTAIC COMPONENTS

Hoda Eskandar Nia; Wei Ziwei Zhao; Mirella Eleni Dourampei; Yuan Huang

BIORECEPTIVE ACOUSTIC PANEL WITH MOSS GROWTH

Yi Li; Sung Min Rhee; Ciao Xiao; Mia Leyi Qi

Photo credit: Chris Leung

14-09-2017

Lecture at International Symposium 'Polycephalum City', Tallinn Architecture Biennale 'BioTallinn', Estonia.
Venue: Balti Jaam Pavilion
Speakers (Day 1): Lucy Bullivant (moderator); Bart Lootsma; Marco Poletto; Marcos Cruz; Mitchel Joachim
Speakers (Day 2): Emmanouil Zaroukas (moderator); Rachel Armstrong; Areti Markopoulou; Heather Barnett; Renee Puusepp; Matias del Campo

Photo credit: Claudia Pasquero

13-09 to 27-10-2017

BiotA Lab exhibits at Tallinn Architecture Biennale 'BioTallinn', Estonia.
Venue: Museum of Estonian Architecture

Curator: Claudia Pasquero

Participants: BiotA Lab, London; Experimental Architecture Lab, Newcastle; Ecologic Studio, London; IaaC, Barcelona; Urban Morphogenesis Lab, London; Linkscale; Heather Barnett
Pavilion: Gilles Retsin

VISCOUS BIOMATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN ARCHITECTURE

Algae-laden hydrogel scaffolds: Shneel Malik - Supervision Prof Marcos Cruz and Dr Brenda Parker

Bioreceptive Biophotovoltaics: Hoda Eskadar Nia; Eleni Dourampei; Yuan Huang; Ziwei Zhao - Supervision Prof Marcos Cruz and Dr Chris Leung with support from Dr Brenda Parker (UCL) and Dr Paolo Bombelli (Cambridge)

Photo credit: Shneel Malik

29-06-2017

C-Biom.A group exhibits at 'Living (in) Future Cities exhibition - End of Year Exhibition', Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Venue: MUHBA Oliva Artes, Poblenou
Organisation: Mathilde Marengo; Maria Kuptsova
Supervision: Marcos Cruz
Students: Jessica Dias; Thorahafdis Arnardottir; Noor Elgewely; Yasamin Khalilbeigikhameneh; Inthat Useasakaree; Nikolaos Argyros; Christopher Wong

Hyper-articulated Mycomorph

Jessica Dias

Inlucent Resin and Cellulose Manifolds

Noor Elgewely

Photo credit: Jessica Dias; Noor Elgewely

23-06-2017
Opening of Unit 20 exhibition at Bartlett Summer Show 2017, London UK.
Guest opener: Ross Lovegrove

Venue: 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB

Unit 20 tutors: Marcos Cruz; Marjan Colletti; Javier Ruiz
Installation design: Javier Ruiz; Marcos Cruz; Marjan Colletti
Unit 20 installation with work of: Matthew Pratt; Patrick Mawson; Helen Siu; Tom Bush; Mon Thi Han Han; Man Chung Wong; Ching Yiu Wong; Shi Qi Kiki Tu; Yi Liong; Fadhil Fadhil; Yinghua Chen; Daryl Brown; Cristina Manta; Yulia Amaral

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

16-06-2017

Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.

Students: Jessica Dias; Thorahafdis Arnardottir; Noor Elgewely; Yasamin Khalilbeigikhameneh; Inthat Useasakaree; Nikolaos Argyros; Christopher Wong
Assistant Tutor: Nina Jotanovic

Technical Support: Khunaljit Chahda
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
Critics: Manuel Gausa, Martyn Dade-Robertson, Areti Markopoulou, Maria Kuptsova; Mathilde Marengo; Maite Bravo; Carmelo Zappula

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

14/15-06-2017
External Examination, Royal academy of Fine Arts / KADK, Copenhagen, Denmark.

06-06-2017
Presentation at VISION 2017 Future of the Built Environment, London UK.

Venue: Olympia London

Theatre: Materials Innovation & Technological Insights

01-06-2017

Presentation at the Responsive Matter conference: De L'impression 3D 'a la matiere 4D, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France.

Organisation Committee: Dominique Peysson, Samuel Bianchini, Emanuele Quinz

Speakers: Eduardo Kac (artist); Roger Malina (Chair of Physics, University of Texas); Jerome Bibette (Director of Biochemistry, ESPCI); Stefane Perraud (artist); Teresa can Dongen (designer); Benoit Roman (Director of Research, CNRS); Corentin Coulais (University of Amsterdam); Jean-Marc Chomaz (physician, Ecole Polytechnique Paris); Aurerie Mosse (designer); Dominque Person (artist); Emile de Visscher (designer); Ianis Lalemand (artist); Lia Giraud (artist); Jeanne Vicerial (designer); Selma Lepart (artist); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett).

28-03-2017

C-Biom.A Crits, IAAC, Barcelona Spain.
Critics: Alex Dubor; Maite Bravo; Mathilde Marengo; Maria Kuptsova; Marcos Cruz

23-03-2017

Guest Lecture 'Biointegrated Design' at Leicester School of Architecture, UK.
Venue: de Montfort University
Host: Ben Cowd and Mary Johnson

17-03-2017

BiotA Lab / rC7 Crits, Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Critics: Richard Beckett; Javier Ruiz; Chris Leung; Marcos Cruz

06/08-03-2017

BiotA Lab exhibits at ECOBUILD 2017, London UK.
Organisers: ARCC/UKCIP
Venue: Excell Centre / BRE area
Sponsored: EPSRC

EPSRC funded research on bioreceptive materials (front left); Bioreceptive MPC casts (Z.Wang; Y.Jiang; X.Lin; Q.Zeng - middle back); Robotically printed hydrogel prints (J.Hagopian; S.Mohite; X.Zhou; H.Qian - back right)

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

02-03-2017

Seminar Talk for the 1st year History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.

Host: Mario Carpo

01-02-2017

BiotA Lab exhibits at Super Material exhibition, The Building Centre, London, UK.

Organisor: The Built Environment Trust
Venue: The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT

Participants: 4D printed programmable materials - Self-Assembly Lab/MIT; Prototype glass brick section, MVRDV's Crystal Houses - Poesia Glass Bricks, Delo Industrial Adhesives, TU Delft, Rosso Dotto; Transparent Wood - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Bioreceptive Concrete - BiotA Lab, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; Silk Pavilion - Mediated Matter Group, Media Lab, MIT; Digital Grotesque Grotto - Michael Hansmeyer with the ETH Zurich and Voxeljet AG; Urban Algae Folly / Plaited Microbial Cellulose / Microbial Cellulose Structure Prototype - ecoLogicStudio, London; Shrilk Bioplastic - Wyss Institute, Harvard University; Black Graphene Radiation Protecting Paint - GraphenStone with The Grapheme Company; Torsional Stone Floor Slab - Webb Yates Engineers and Interrobang with the Stonemasonry Company and Artisteel Ltd.; Aluminium Foam - Cymat Technologies; Facade made of pollution - Made of Air, Elegant Embellishment, Berlin; Electricity-generating floorboards - University of Wisconsin-Madison; 3D Printed Steel Nodes - Arup with WithinLab, CRDM/3D Systems and EOS; Silk Violin - Luca Alessandrini with Imperial College London, Royal College of Art, Oxford Silk Group, ANLAI and Taroni srl.; Interactive Printed Graphene drum poster - Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge with Novalia; Biologically transformed Venice Brick Fragment - Rachel Armstrong, University of Newcastle; Airflow Bioplastic - Urban Morphogenesis Lab, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; Radiant Heat Basalt Fibre Concrete - Techniker, London and Cornish Concrete Products, Truro; Agar Plasticity (Bowls and Tiles) - AMAM, Tokyo; Nanocellulose Samples - Aalto University, Helsinki; Bamboo-reinforced Concrete - ETH Zurich; Stabilized Soil from Peru using Aggrebind - Aggrebind, Connecticut; Aerogel Particles - Structura; Aerogel Insulation Wall Panel - Kalwall and Structura; Fire-retardant Plywood - Specialised Panel Products; Crustic Bioplastic Casings - Jeongwon Ji, London; Coconut Husk Board - Goodhout, Delft; Bullet-proof Film - Rosso Dotto, C-Bond; Photovoltaic Transparent Glass - Polysolar; Stone Wool Insulation - Rockwool

Bioreceptive concrete facade component - EPSRC funded (panels on left) Marcos Cruz, Richard Beckett, Sandra Manso, Chris Leung, Bill Watts (components on right) Taehyun Lee, Wen Cheng, Soo Hyung Kim, Dan Lin)

Photo credit: Marcos Cruz

13-01-2017

BiotA Lab prototypes installed at Camley Street Natural Park, London, UK.

Venue: Camley Street Natural Park, Camden, 12 Camley Street, London N1C 4PW

Organiser: Karolina Leszczynska-Gogol

Installation: Marcos Cruz and Richard Beckett with Hao Ding, Yi Li, Jerry Jian Zhou, Leo Bowen Zhang, Steve Shengtao Luo, Wei Ziwei Zhao, Kyle Ciao Xiao