Bioreceptive Prototypes

Installation of four bioreceptive building prototypes  - 2017 (2015-16) BiotA Lab
A collaboration between the Bartlett UCL and Camley Street Nature Park, London UK [built]. 

Design and installation: BiotA Lab
Fabrication: UCL B-Made
The building prototypes were developed in the BiotA Lab at the Bartlett during 2015-16 and installed at Camley Street Nature Park in 2017 for an observational study of several years, in which bioreceptive qualifies of the surface morphology and materials are being tested. Each of the pieces demonstrates very distinct features, varying in terms of materiality and form, being vertical or horizontal, exposed to canal or located inland, etc. 

Types
Wall fragment: Bioreceptive Calcareous Composites (material: sandstone magnesium phosphate concrete)
Column: De-carbonated concrete column with Canal in the background (material: sprayed ordinary portland concrete)
Floor panel: Bioreceptive Claycrete Panel (material: mix of Ordinary Portland Concrete and Clay)
Floor panel: Bioreceptive concrete facade component (material: magnesium phosphate concrete)

Bioreceptive Calcareous Composites facing Regent's Canal
Crystal Xinhe Lin, Yuxin Jiang, Andy Zhili Wang, Qungyue Zeng
Bioreceptive Calcareous Composites
Crystal Xinhe Lin, Yuxin Jiang, Andy Zhili Wang, Qungyue Zeng
De-carbonated concrete column with Canal in the background
Hillier Yue Li, Tommy Zheng Tang
Bioreceptive Claycrete panel
Jiarui Liu, Chong Hong, Yi Liu, Nan Huang
Bioreceptive concrete facade component EPSRC funded
Marcos Cruz, Richard Beckett, Sandra Manso, Chris Leung, Bill Watts
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz