Eco Factor: Oxygen-generating installation can bring new life to architecture projects.
The founders of ecoLogicStudio have unveiled their latest project, the STEMcloud 2.0, which proposes the development of an architectural prototype serving as an oxygen-generating machine. The system will operate as a breeding ground for micro-ecologies found in rivers and will involve the visitors in the breeding process, the end result of which will be an oxygen-rich gallery space.
The transparency of the architectural system allows the process to be visually exposed to the elements of the gallery, which further aids the visitors to intervene with the system and help the breeding process. Visitors will feed the colonies present in the river water with nutrients, CO2 and light, which will then be used by the micro-ecologies producing oxygen along with their growth.
This extended model of systemic architecture can be understood in terms of cybernetics. The system provides a framework to deal with change and transformation, which are the starting points to promote visitor interaction. The system is multilayered and interacts in a wide variety of ways, which instills a feeling that the outcome of the whole cycle will be unpredictable.
The machine interacts with the visitors and provides feedback in different ways. A wide spectrum of light stimulates algae growth and feedback arises when each block develops an internal equilibrium.
Nutrients are inserted by the visitors and the more active blocks consume more nutrients and hence grow faster. This contradiction will push the differentiation further and tempt the visitors to create a manual equilibrium by inserting more nutrients in the slowly developing blocks.
Finally, photosynthetic activity will be monitored live and fed back to the user. The active blocks will signal a need for more CO2, which can be provided by the user. The user’s response and interaction depends on LEDs, which change their intensity to put forward a need, and once the desired action is performed the LED intensity also changes.
Via: ArchDaily
