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Les Jardins Fluviaux de la Loire, 2017 Frac Center - Val de Loire A landscape project by ecoLogicStudio engaging with the design of wild rivers in contemporary urban design and exploring a new model of urbanity in co-evolution with natural systems. Developed in collaboration with the City of Orleans and the FRAC Centre-Val de Loire in Orléans, the project engages with the Loire as a “wild river”, proposing to transform its turbulent dynamics into a public fluvial landscape. Through the use of computational mapping and environmental monitoring, the river’s geomorphological processes, sedimentation, accretion, and flow, are translated into a series of growing gardens embedded within the riverbed. Rather than controlling nature, the project proposes a shared protocol of interaction, where citizens, designers, and the river itself participate in shaping a continuously evolving environment, redefining the relationship between city, infrastructure, and ecology. Exhibited for first time at the first Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans curated by Abdelkader Damani ans @luca_galofaro in 2017. The project is now part of the permanent collection of the FRAC Centre-Val de Loire @fraccentre academic partners Urban Morphohensis Lab, @syntheticlandscapelab #ecoLogicStudio #LivingArchitecture #LandscapeDesign #Biodesign #Frac

GANPhysarum, La dérive numérique (2022) Commissioned by the @centrepompidou Centre Pompidou, this project by ecoLogicStudio in collaboration with the @syntheticlandscapelab Synthetic Landscape Lab (University of Innsbruck) explores how biological and artificial intelligence can reshape urban futures. A custom-trained GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) is designed to behave like Physarum Polycephalum, a single-celled slime mould known for its distributed intelligence. Sent on a computational dérive through Paris, the AI reinterprets the city as a living, evolving system. The resulting film reveals a shift from rigid urban morphology to fluid, networked infrastructures, blue-green, adaptive, and alive. Alongside it, a living bio-painting captures Physarum’s growth across a nutrient-mapped canvas, offering a nonhuman reading of Paris’ biotic resources. GANPhysarum proposes new pathways toward carbon neutrality, biodiversity, and urban self-sufficiency, reframing design through a radically nonhuman lens. Now part of the Centre Pompidou’s permanent collection, the project continues to evolve across international exhibitions. Photos by @studio_naaro #GANPhysarum #ecoLogicStudio #BioDigital #UrbanFuture #AIArt SlimeMould Paris SpeculativeDesign BioIntelligence Architecture FutureCities SyntheticLandscapeLab

H.O.R.T.U.S. XL Astaxanthin.g, 2019 Commissioned by the @centrepompidou Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2019, HORTUS XL is a bio-digital sculpture that explores the intersection of architecture, computation, and living systems. Developed by ecoLogicStudio in collaboration with the Synthetic Landscape Lab at the University of Innsbruck, and supported by a wider network of academic partners, the project consists of a 3D-printed structure designed to host colonies within a biogel medium embedded with photosynthetic cyanobacteria. As the algae develop within this medium, it is possible to perceive their subtle scent in the air, reminiscent of a fresh grass field with notes of fragrant hazelnut, adding a sensory dimension to the metabolic process through which light is transformed into oxygen and biomass. The project redefines architecture as a living interface, where biological intelligence becomes an integral component of spatial design. First presented at the Centre Pompidou, the installation has since been exhibited internationally, including at the @mak_vienna MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the @moriartmuseum Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, and the @hyundai.motorstudio Hyundai Motorstudio in Busan, among others. A bespoke fragment of HORTUS has also been privately commissioned by the Saudi Government. An experimental prototype, HORTUS XL forms part of a broader research trajectory into photosynthetic architectures, where digital fabrication and biological processes converge, anticipating a future in which architecture is no longer inert, but alive. HORTUS XL Astaxantin.g is currently part of @ecologicstudio Archive. photos by @studio_naaro at @centrepompidou in Paris for La Fabrique du Vivant exhibition, 2019. #HORTUS #ecoLogicStudio #PhotoSynthetica #LivingArchitecture #SyntheticLandscapeLab

MetaFolly, 2013 A field of sound, a synthetic swarm. Upon crossing a summer meadow, the chorus of crickets seems to move with you, an acoustic ecology shaped by presence, distance, and time. MetaFolly translates this phenomenon into architecture: a sonic pavilion where space is not only seen, but heard, and continuously reconfigured by the body in motion. Commissioned for ArchiLab 9 and now part of the FRAC Centre’s @fraccentre permanent collection, MetaFolly operates as a responsive field of 300 piezo-buzzers. Their tones, simple in isolation, interact through proximity and movement, generating ripples, silences, and interferences that echo the living dynamics of natural systems. Here, biology is not mimicked but abstracted. Nature is not contained, but enacted, emerging from the interplay between human presence and computational logic. The result is a new architectural language: one based on perception, feedback, and temporal patterns rather than static form. Built from recycled and off-the-shelf materials through a process of “slow prototyping,” the pavilion embraces the condition of “trashiness” with precision and care, transforming it into a new aesthetic and ecological statement. MetaFolly challenges the boundary between the natural and the artificial, proposing an architecture that behaves less like an object and more like an ecosystem: reactive, relational, and alive in time. The MetaFolly has been part of exhibitions at @fraccentre in Orleans, at @cccb_barcelona in Barcelona, at @zkmkarlsruhe in Karlsruhe upon others. #metaFolly #ecoLogicStudio #ArchiLab9 #FRACOrleans #ResponsiveArchitecture #BioDigital #Anthropocene #SonicArchitecture #ComputationalDesign #SlowArchitecture

Morning Cybergardening with @syntheticlandscapelab - - Biodiversity Landscape Prototype WIP 💚

Rooting Pot A planter that brings attention to what usually remains unseen. The Rooting Pot from the PhotoSynthetica Gardening Collection by ecoLogicStudio is designed to frame the early stages of plant life, giving space and visibility to the moment where growth begins. Its open and sculptural form creates a delicate balance between containment and exposure, allowing roots and soil to become part of the visual experience. 3D-printed using bio-based materials, it reflects a design approach where process, growth, and form are closely connected. A minimal object that invites a slower, more conscious way of engaging with plants. Discover more, link in bio. Photos: Xiao Wang, The Synthetic Landscape Lab #RootingPot #PhotoSynthetica #ecoLogicStudio #BiophilicDesign #LivingDesign #PlantDesign #SustainableDesign #3DPrinting

SuperTree, Hortus ZKM 2015 Today we inhabit the Urbansphere, a constructed ecosystem where nature is no longer separate, but fully integrated into human infrastructure. Developed for ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, commissioned by Peter Weibel, SuperTree reimagines the tree not as a passive natural element, but as an active architectural apparatus. Transforming the archetype of the tree into a high-resolution photobioreactor, SuperTree connects human metabolism with microalgal ecologies, capturing CO₂, producing oxygen, and generating nutrient-rich biomass with an efficiency far beyond that of a conventional tree. An interface between energy, matter, and life, where architecture becomes a living system. Now part of the permanent collection of ZKM @zkmkarlsruhe photoshoot by @studio_naaro when SuperTree was exhibited in 2018 at Futurium Museum, in Berlin @futuriumd #SuperTree #ecoLogicStudio #PhotoSynthetica #LivingArchitecture #Biodesign #ZKM #SustainableDesign #ArtAndScience

Bio-Digital Ring, 2017 From emissions to ornament, the Bio-Digital Ring reimagines jewellery as a living archive of environmental transformation. Part of the PhotoSynthetica Collection, each piece is bio-digitally grown through artificial intelligence and crafted from a composite of 30% algae biomass and polylactic acid (PLA), materialising a future where design, biotechnology, and sustainability converge. Conceived as a jewel “grown” from the emissions of London, every 20g ring embodies the equivalent of approximately one day of air filtration produced by an AIReactor. More than adornment, it is a wearable manifestation of captured atmosphere, where pollution is transfigured into beauty, and technology cultivates new forms of life. “In this unique object, we can recognize one of the most significant aspects of contemporary technological evolution: its inevitable convergence with living nature. The ring has a powerful symbolic value, it is a call to collectively re-orient our value systems and to recognize preciousness where now we only see dirt.” Prof. Claudia Pasquero. photoshoot by @pepe_fotografia (2024, Design Apothecary, Turin) #BioDesign #FutureMaterials #PhotoSynthetica #DesignInnovation #WearableArt

AI, biodesign and the home as living system: ecoLogicStudio proposes proposes DeepGreen Domesticity with the Design Apothecary, Turin Located within the former Mulini Feyles – a 19th-century industrial complex in central Turin once associated with the Arte Povera movement – the Design Apothecary is the new domestic space of Professor Claudia Pasquero and Dr. Marco Poletto, co-founders of @ecologicstudio . At 250 sqm, it tests a radical yet intimate idea: ecologic domesticity, a way of living where interior design actively participates in environmental repair, circular production and everyday wellbeing. A city renowned for its artistic, scientific and technological heritage, and at the forefront of aerospace, automotive innovation, AI and robotics, Turin is also marked by some of Italy’s highest levels of air pollution. The Design Apothecary responds not by retreating from the city, but by metabolising it, with a fully functional air-purifying algae garden at the heart of the open-plan concept – composed of 17 lab-grade photobioreactors, capturing CO₂, airborne pollutants and transforming them into oxygen, biomass and protein. Read more from our latest issue at the link in bio🔗 📸 @pepe_fotografia #positiveimpact #sustainabledesign #sustainability #turin #commercialinteriors

Get @reshare_app • @pr_mintlist A huge thank you to Grace Charlton for the thorough and insightful interview with Prof Claudia Pasquero co-founder of ecoLogicStudio, among others, featured in Konfekt. Here’s a little sneak peek: @graceacharlton : I think that we can all agree that striving for more of a symbiosis between humans and nature is a worthy ambition. How can we apply such an approach to all of our living spaces? @claudiapasquero : During the Renaissance, when the concept of architecture was formalised, the relationship between the biosphere [nature in its wild, untamed dimension] and the urbanosphere [the built environment of a city] was the opposite of what it is now. The biosphere was perceived as powerful, unpredictable and potentially threatening. Architecture emerged as a mediation between the human and the non-human. Today this relationship is inverted. The biosphere is understood as fragile, depleted and increasingly destabilised by human activity. Architecture can no longer operate as a static fortress shielding people from nature. Instead, it must evolve into something that’s more ephemeral, dynamic and adaptive, capable of re-establishing meaningful connections with natural processes and expanding our capacity to engage with them. #MINTLIST #proffice #pressrelations

EarthPot[M Alga] Part of the PhotoSynthetica Gardening Collection, the EarthPot[M Alga] is designed to support plant life through a balanced relationship between form, material, and environment. Available in different sizes, the collection adapts to a variety of plants — from small domestic greenery to larger compositions. The medium size (Ø 13 cm x H 14 cm) offers a compact and versatile solution for everyday use, acting as a protective outer shell that enhances the presence of the plant and its inner pot. 3D-printed with algae-based filament it reflects a circular approach where design emerges from biological processes. A sculptural planter that connects plants, materials, and sustainable production. Photos by Xiao Wang, developed during the Urban Gardening Workshop Turin with The Synthetic Landscape Lab at Innsbruck University. #EarthPot #PhotoSynthetica #ecoLogicStudio #PlantDesign #BiophilicDesign

Bio.Techno.Polis, adaptable architecture Presented at Fiera Milano Rho with Angaisa, Bio.Techno.Polis is not only a space built around photosynthesis, but also a reflection on how we build, assemble, and reuse architecture. The wooden structure is designed as a modular system, easily assembled and disassembled, allowing the installation to be adapted, relocated, and reused over time. A flexible framework that extends the lifecycle of the project while reducing waste. An architecture that is not static, but evolves, moves, and transforms, just like the biological processes it hosts. PhotoSynthetica becomes not only a biotechnological system, but also a constructive strategy for more sustainable, circular spaces. photos: Xiao Wang and Mika Schulz, The Synthetic Landscape Lab, Innsbruck University. #ecoLogicStudio #PhotoSynthetica #BioTechnoPolis #SyntheticLandscapes #CircularDesign