Metabolic material is interesting concept taking the mechanisms of biology to form our desires. A living material that consistently responding to its surroundings and in some point to grow and repair by itself. It it likely to be used in areas with repeat flooding or urban areas lower than sea levels since it requires the water for system development. Speaker suggested saving Venice as a case study in this talk that it it believed this technology can prevent city to sink any further by using the protocell technology. This concept is to generate and design an artificial reef under the foundation of existing wooden piles to stop the further sinking and in possible case to bring it back to the new land. Application of this idea will need to consume a long time and it may not be able to succeed in first try but if it continues develop it can be applied to prevent and repair upcoming unexpected natural disaster. Yes, we do work hard to prevent any further disasters happening but in some point mother nature does struck us and give a hard time. It is important to preventing future issues but if the problems are already there we cannot ignore them. We should find a way to resolve them to learn a lesson from the past. This technology considers building from the bottom structure and creates architecture than re-connects itself back to the city through the use of surrounding environment. It makes our world our living more symbiotic and using technology that does not outgrows in negative ways.
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