Probiotic Prototype: How Can Design Better Accommodate Our Tiny Roommates?

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live: A New Spatial Contract for Multi-Species Architecture by The Living explores a new vision for probiotic buildings. The project is a prototype for architecture that uses microbial communities as the building’s fabric. The project’s rooms are made of porous, organic material with ‘macro’-spaces for humans and micro-spaces for microbes, making it a model for a new spatial contract between species of organisms.

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