Diller Scofidio + Renfro partners with biotech company on OXYA green product line

2024-08-26T17:50:00-04:00

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is the first American firm to partner with biotech startup Pneuma Bio on a new product line of carbon-sequestering materials made from microorganisms such as algae that can be used in commercial architecture and residential buildings. Their OXYA product line was born out of years of materials research that began at North Carolina State University and continues through a collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland.

A press release states: "Over the next 15 months, the company will cover 15 buildings with OXYA through partnerships with DS+R, hotel chains, and paint manufacturers. Across these building spaces, the materials are proving quite versatile and are being used to cover walls (as liquid wallpaper or paint), windows, fabric for covering furniture, light fixtures & chandeliers, among other things."

Even bacteria are architects

2014-07-29T12:02:00-04:00

Until present, we knew of similar patterns created from saline solutions and isolated proteins, but this is the first report that demonstrates how whole bacterial cells can manage the crystallisation of sodium chloride (NaCl) and generate self-organised biosaline structures of a fractal or dendritic appearance.

Recent work by researchers from the Laboratory of BioMineralogy and Astrobiological Research at the University of Valladolid-CSIC, Spain, has discovered that bacteria manipulate salt to build shelters to hibernate.

h/t @Geoff Manaugh

Also, previously and related..?

Archinect - News

​Diller Scofidio + Renfro partners with biotech company on OXYA green product line

Even bacteria are architects

Diller Scofidio + Renfro partners with biotech company on OXYA green product line