DNArch

ABSTRACT:
Deoxyribonucleic acid, or as it is mostly known DNA, is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. Scientists have not only managed to translate this code, but also to manipulate it. Cell characteristics and functions can now be altered, only by inputting different genes in their genetic code.
This scientific revolution could become an important tool in architectural processes, as well. Genetic architecture does not focus only on the organic biomorphic forms, but also on the ways Nature develops itself. Genetic manipulated bio-materials have already been developed and could be introduced in building structures. Moreover, architects like Alberto T. Estévez, are visioning the “living building” which consists of alive elements and finally recreates the environment. Synthetic Biology has already started investigating the development of artificial life-like cells, which can evolve and be self-reproduced and self-maintained. These alive bricks are potential to become the “bricks” of the new architecture organisms…