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SYMBIO-GENESIS: Barcelona’s Bio-Digital Territory by ISHAQ ROCHMAN
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SYMBIO-GENESIS: Barcelona’s Bio-Digital Territory by ISHAQ ROCHMAN
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By 2051, the climate crisis has forced a radical shift: architecture can no longer be a static container. It must become a living, metabolic interface. Selected as a Top 16 project in the 11th Advanced Architecture Contest, SYMBIO-GENESIS reinterprets Barcelona’s built environment as a responsive organism that doesn't just house people, but actively heals the planet’s thermal imbalance through high-level bio-digital synchronization.
Rather than relying on mechanical cooling, the project utilizes an AI-driven ecological feedback loop. This "metabolic manager" processes global atmospheric fluctuations to guide local biological growth, turning every structure into a component of a passive cooling machine. The intervention operates across a seamless hierarchy of scales. At the Body Scale, architecture acts as a second skin, where moss layers provide immediate cooling through active evaporation. This logic scales up to the Interior, where mycelium and moss membranes regulate humidity and airflow, transforming the facade into a porous, breathing lung.
On a Building Scale, the traditional shelter is replaced by a biological entity. Mycelium serves as both a structural substrate and a nutrient-sharing network, reinforcing areas of high thermal stress while moss filters pollutants and releases moisture. In the Urban Scale, Barcelona’s rigid Eixample blocks evolve into a distributed metabolic network. These are no longer isolated buildings but interconnected nodes linked via subsurface "rhizomatic" nutrient and data paths.
Expanding to the Territorial and Planetary Scales, the system integrates satellite intelligence with ground-level sensors to manage vast water cycles and landscape regeneration. SYMBIO-GENESIS ultimately positions Barcelona as a critical node in a "Global Respiratory Network." By locking carbon into the metabolic memory of mycelium and modulating atmospheric heat flux, architecture becomes a planetary infrastructure for ecological restoration. This scalar interconnectedness proves that the future of design lies in a deep, systemic negotiation between biology, technology, and space.
Rather than relying on mechanical cooling, the project utilizes an AI-driven ecological feedback loop. This "metabolic manager" processes global atmospheric fluctuations to guide local biological growth, turning every structure into a component of a passive cooling machine. The intervention operates across a seamless hierarchy of scales. At the Body Scale, architecture acts as a second skin, where moss layers provide immediate cooling through active evaporation. This logic scales up to the Interior, where mycelium and moss membranes regulate humidity and airflow, transforming the facade into a porous, breathing lung.
On a Building Scale, the traditional shelter is replaced by a biological entity. Mycelium serves as both a structural substrate and a nutrient-sharing network, reinforcing areas of high thermal stress while moss filters pollutants and releases moisture. In the Urban Scale, Barcelona’s rigid Eixample blocks evolve into a distributed metabolic network. These are no longer isolated buildings but interconnected nodes linked via subsurface "rhizomatic" nutrient and data paths.
Expanding to the Territorial and Planetary Scales, the system integrates satellite intelligence with ground-level sensors to manage vast water cycles and landscape regeneration. SYMBIO-GENESIS ultimately positions Barcelona as a critical node in a "Global Respiratory Network." By locking carbon into the metabolic memory of mycelium and modulating atmospheric heat flux, architecture becomes a planetary infrastructure for ecological restoration. This scalar interconnectedness proves that the future of design lies in a deep, systemic negotiation between biology, technology, and space.
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