MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman: Construction In Vivo: First Prize Next Generation Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction 2008

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Construction In Vivo: First Prize Next Generation Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction 2008

Neri Oxman (MIT) and A. John Hart (University of Michigan) received the first prize in the Next Generation category of the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction, 2008. The Holcim Awards ceremony for North America was held on October 16, 2008, in Montreal. Oxman's and Hart's winning entry is entitled: "Construction In Vivo" and offers a novel approach to the design, fabrication and construction of smart building skins using Carbon Nano Tubes.

http://www.constructioninvivo.com/
www.holcimfoundation.org
http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T797/A08NA-NG1.htm
http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T808/A08NAng1-gallery.htm

materialecology

materialecology was formed in 2006 by Neri Oxman as an interdisciplinary research initiative that undertakes design research in the intersection between architecture, engineering, computation, and ecology. As such, this initiative is concerned with material organization and performance across all scales of design thought and practice. As such, it seeks to promote and define a design research agenda which is ecological in nature, in ideology and in material practice; it aims at embracing the evolving elements of change in both (and indeed related) social constructs and environmental descriptions of the ever changing built environment. materialecology undertakes research in advanced digital applications for architectural practice and pursuits their contribution to a design paradigm promoting generative design processes.