3.06.2024

Terreform ONE in Domus w/ Fab Tree Hab


Emanuele Quinz, 04 March 2024, DOMUS: "Alive and growing: architectures made of trees"

"Architecture has always been a mineral technique, producing buildings that are stable, impermeable, and strong. But what if we turned our focus to plant-based architecture instead?"

https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/gallery/2024/03/01/growing-architecture.html

1.25.2024

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant to Terreform ONE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 25th, 2024

Innovative Architectural Design Project, Fab Tree Hab, Receives Prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Grant

[Brooklyn, NY] – Terreform ONE's recent initiative, the Fab Tree Hab, has been honored with a Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), recognizing its revolutionary approach to architectural design. Fab Tree Hab focuses on creating multispecies dwellings using 100% living grafted woody plants, aiming to redefine green architecture.

“The NEA is delighted to announce this grant to Terreform ONE which is helping contribute to the strength and well-being of the arts sector and local community,” said National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, Ph.D. “We are pleased to be able to support this community and help create an environment where all people have the opportunity to live artful lives.”  

Project Narrative: 
The Fab Tree Hab is a terrestrial reef and grafted living tree structure that serves as a habitat shared by both humans and animals. It is sublimely located on ten acres of land in New Windsor, New York, just a few minutes from the Storm King Art Center. 

Created by Terreform ONE, this innovative project combines indigenous tree-grafting techniques and computationally designed wooden arch scaffolds. The primary objective is to prototype a dwelling seamlessly integrated into its natural landscape while replacing harmful industrial materials with decarbonizing, bio-based alternatives. This aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15, which focuses on Life on Land, as it promotes sustainable land use and biodiversity.

Spanning approximately 1,000 square feet, the structure ingeniously incorporates locally sourced 30-foot-tall tree clusters, meticulously shaped on-site using large cross-laminated timber (CLT) arch scaffolds. Harvested from a nearby biomass farm, these willow trees form the backbone of the construction. The infill wall modules, treated with a combination of beeswax and pine rosin, serve as the canvas for a unique blend of handmade crocheted jute fibers and 3D-printed bioplastic volumes, fostering multispecies habitats. The end result is a vibrant living habitat that significantly enhances biodiversity, creating micro-habitats and intricate food webs for both flora and fauna.

The project is in alignment with the mission of Terreform ONE, a 501c3 nonprofit art, architecture, and urban design research group dedicated to addressing the extinction of planetary species through innovative design solutions. Founded in 2006, the group is led by Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. (Co-Founder) and Vivian Kuan (Executive Director). The Fab Tree Hab stands as a testament to their dedication to creating inclusive spaces and implementing strategies that promote environmental and social justice for all living beings. Joachim, reflecting on the project, noted, "It has taken over fifteen years of research and development, dating back to my time at MIT, to bring this vision to fruition."

The National Endowment for the Arts, established in 1965, is the largest funder of the arts and arts education in communities nationwide.


For media inquiries, please contact:
Mitchell Joachim at (617) 285-0901 | info@terreform.org.
Photos and video are available at https://www.terreform.org/fab-tree-hab.

For more information on the NEA’s grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.

1.11.2024

Guangzhou Design Triennial w/ Terreform ONE


Guangzhou Design Triennial
The Warm-beings
Guangdong Museum of Art
January 16–May 31, 2024
Naiyi Wang co-curator.

Participants: A.A.Murakami (Azusa Murakami & Alexander Groves), Aldo Cibic, Alissa + Nienke, Alvaro Catalan de Ocon, Chen Min, Colin Fournier, ecoLogicStudio (Claudia Pasquero & Marco Poletto), Eric Klarenbeek & Maartje Dros, FormaFantasma (Andrea Trimarchi & Simone Farresin), Lin Fanglu, MOS Architects (Hilary Sample & Michael Meredith), Neri Oxman, Onearthstudio, Shahar Livne, Studio Ossidiana (Giovanni Bellotti & Alessandra Covini), Terreform ONE (Mitchell Joachim & Vivian Kuan)

Matters of Care at Guangzhou Design Triennial 2024 is supported by Design Trust Feature Grant

Next Nature Magazine: Spacefarming


Ruben Baart, Next Nature Magazine: Spacefarming, "Cricket Shelter, Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE". pp. 110-113.

https://nextnature.net/shop/products/next-nature-magazine-spacefarming-en

12.16.2023

Fab Tree Hab: Multispecies Living Structure


The Fab Tree Hab is an extension of its surrounding ecosystem, a habitat made from native willow trees that play host to humans and nonhumans. As dynamic as a forest, the structure is an embodiment of 100% living matter, upending human-centered and energy-intensive construction practices. The system can act as a major catalyst to improve air quality, sequester carbon, increase biodiversity, as well as provide refuge and food sources to local fauna. 

Sourced from a local biomass farm, thirty-foot tall tree clusters are shaped on-site within large cross-laminated timber (CLT) arch scaffolds. After a year’s worth of growth, the trees support the modular multispecies wall system. Wall components are made from a combination of handmade crocheted jute fibers and 3D-printed bioplastic volumes. These serve as micro-habitats and food webs for flora and fauna to greatly increase biodiversity. The structure takes a socio-ecological approach to design, serving as an observatory and education center for people, while also providing a refuge to wildlife. 

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9.18.2023

UN Goals House By Design: Creating Healthy and Resilient Cities w/ Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE

Goals House, ‘By Design: Creating Healthy and Resilient Cities’, co-hosted by Bupa and the Norman Foster Foundation. Event is moderated by The Guardian’s US live news editor, Chris Michael. 

Roundtable participants include:  

  • Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE, and NYU
  • Dr. Maria Neira, Director of Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation
  • Dr. Marina Romanello, Executive Director at Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change
  • Ashwin Vasan, The Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, New York City Commission
  • Dr. Mauricio Ilabaca, Head of the Environment Department Chilean Medical College
  • Glyn Richards, Director of Sustainability, Bupa
  • Diego Lopez Urruchi, Co-head of Architecture and Technology Unit, Norman Foster Foundation
  • Shruti Narayan, Regional Director for South and West Asia, C40
  • Arthy Hartwell, Policy Lead, Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust
  • David Croft, Global Head of Sustainability, Reckitt
  • Laura Mann, Director, Global Partnerships and Operations, AstraZeneca
  • Gary Cohen, President, and founder, Health Care Without Harm

ETH Zurich - Enough Seminar w/ Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

Enough Seminar: Prototyping Circular And Ecological Systems In Urban Contexts

ETH Zürich D-ARCH
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Hubert Klumpner Prof. of Architecture and Urban Design / LUS

Adey Bryan T. Prof. of Infrastructure Management / D-BAUG

Mitchell Joachim Prof. of Practice at NYU, Terreform ONE

Momoyo Kaijima Prof. of Architectural Behaviorology / IEA

Silke Langenberg Prof. of Construction Heritage and Preservation / ITA / IDB

https://klumpner.arch.ethz.ch/

5.09.2023

Engineering Biology and the Fourth Industrial Revolution w/ Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE

Engineering Biology and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Daniel Grushkin (MODERATOR)

Founder and Executive Director, Biodesign Challenge

Fashion Institute of Technology 

Theanne Schiros, Associate Professor 

Pratt Institute

Jeanne Pfordresher,  Artist/Designer 

New School Parsons Healthy Materials Lab

Alison Mears, Director/Co-Founder Parsons Healthy Materials Lab

Associate Professor of Architecture 

Terreform ONE

Mitchell Joachim, Associate Professor NYU and Co-Founder 

Location: Industry City, Camp David

220 36th Street, Brooklyn NY

 https://buildsbio.org/engineering-biology-fourth-industrial-revolution/

4.19.2023

Pandemic Effect w/ Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE


Joachim, Mitchell, Miller, Paul D. and Peder Anker, “Commemorating COVID,” The Pandemic Effect: Ninety Experts on Immunizing the Built Environment, Braine Brownell (ed.), Princeton Architectural Press, pp. 44-45.

4.04.2023

KoozArch Interview w/ Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE


Interviews on KoozArch April 3rd 2023

Design with Life: Terreform One
A conversation with Mitchell Joachim, co-founder of Terreform ONE, on the book Design with Life, Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities (Actar Publishers 2019), the regenerative use of natural materials and the impact of socio-ecological urban design.

New York School of Interior Design w/ Mitchell Joachim- The Sally Henderson Green Design Lecture 2023

Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE: The Work of Architecture in the Age of Synthetic Biology

In the challenging context of accelerating climate dynamics, the core discipline of architectural design is evolving and embracing new forms of action. New York-based nonprofit Terreform ONE has established a distinctive design tactic that investigates projects through the regenerative use of natural materials, biological science, and the emergent field of socio-ecological design. This kind of approach uses actual living matter (not abstracted imitations of nature) to create functional elements and spaces. These future-based actions are not only grounded in social justice but are also far-reaching in their application of digital manufacturing and maker culture. Terreform ONE tackles urgent environmental and urban social concerns through the integrated use of living materials and organisms.

The Sally Henderson Green Design Lecture is an annual event created to honor the memory of NYSID faculty member, Sally Henderson, who developed the College’s first course in sustainable or green design.

3.20.2023

Keynote at DASA Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

German Museums Association has made sustainability a priority - DASA, a permanent educational institution of the Federal Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, informs the public about the world of work, its importance to individuals and society, and the importance of designing work in a humane manner. 
Lectures include; “Museums in Transition”. Dr Annette Ludwig, Director of the Museums of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, will talk about “Sustainability Strategies in the Museum Landscape of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar”, Dr Iris Edenheiser, Director of the Hygiene Museum Dresden, about “Greening up DHMD. Scenography meets institutional sustainability strategy”. Prof. Dr. Sascha Peters, Haute Innovation, will speak on “Sustainable Materials for Exhibition Designers”, Dr. Susanne Nawrath, Klimahaus Bremerhaven, on “Future Perspectives and Power2Change – Communicating Sustainability”, and Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE/ New York, on “Scenographic Architecture in the Age of Synthetic Biology”. 
Photo: Andreas Wahlbrink, DASA

10.06.2022

Norman Foster Foundation Workshop on Sustainability w/ Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE

Workshop on Sustainability: Norman Foster, President, Norman Foster Foundation. 

Claudia Pasquero, Co-founder, ecoLogicStudio, London, United Kingdom; Landscape Architecture Professor, Innsbruck University, Austria; Associated Professor, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom 

Marco Poletto, Co-founder and Director, ecoLogicStudio; Unit Master, Architectural Association (AA), London, United Kingdom 

Stefano Boeri, Principal and Founding Partner, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Milan, Italy 

Cristina Iglesias, Installation Artist and Sculptor, Madrid, Spain 

Mitchell Joachim, Co-founder of Terreform ONE; Associate Professor of Practice, New York University (NYU), New York, NY, United States 

Mohsen Mostafavi, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Former Dean, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States 

Brenda Parker, Associate Professor of Sustainable Bioprocess Design and Director, Bio-ID Lab, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom 

Katie Paterson, Visual Artist, Edinburgh, Scotland 

Moshe Safdie, Founding Partner, Safdie Architects, Boston, MA, United States 

Joseph Bou Saleh, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), Barcelona, Spain 

Saad Boujane, Graduate School of Design (GSD), 
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 

Miran Calmanovici, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 

Terezia Greskova, University of Innsbruck, Austria 

Maria Kuptsova, University of Innsbruck, Austria 

Charles Edgar Lincoln, Confluence Institute for Creative Strategies and Innovation in Architecture, Paris, France 

George Malliaropoulos, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom 

Dana Molzhigit, Barlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom 

Isaac Palmiere-Szabo, Barlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom 

Ellen Marie Reinhard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, United States

10.05.2022

ACSA Intersection Conference Talk w/ Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE



07 Oct, 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
EXPANDED FUTURES: PLENARY
This session will explore artist and designer responses to environmental resilience. Using nature as inspiration these designers have investigated what it means to create a closed-system environment, what we can learn from other organisms and how we can push our own thinking about the futures of the built environment.

Moderator: Stephen Mueller, Texas Tech University

Presenters
Lydia Kallipoliti, Cooper Union
Joyce Hwang, University At Buffalo, SUNY
Mitch Joachim, Terreform ONE

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) are pleased to announce the third annual joint AIA/ACSA INTERSECTIONS Research Conference dedicated to the INTERSECTION of Education, Research and Practice.

9.30.2022

Art at Water’s Edge symposium at Park Avenue Armory w/ Mitchell Joachim

Artists, activists, and designers engage the meeting of land with water. Facing climate change and rising sea levels, this event links New York with communities across the nation and globe that sit at water’s edge. 

SUN OCT 9: Where Do We Go From Here?

4:00pm–5:15pm: Concurrent Sessions

Metabolism | Photosynthesism
Eco-systems artist Michael Wang in conversation with Global Asia theorist Eng-Beng Lim regarding micro and megastructures of plant ecology on Purple Earth.

Signe Nielsen in conversation with Mitchell Joachim
Landscape architect Signe Nielsen (Little Island) in conversation with Mitchell Joachim (The Monarch Sanctuary) on resilience and adaptation in the built environment.

At the Sea’s Edge
Sociologist Macarena Gómez-Barris in conversation with durational artist and activist Sarah Cameron Sunde on Sunde’s durational performance with the sea.

Atlantic is a Sea of Bones
Artist and activist Tourmaline in conversation with performer Egyptt Labeija, star of Tourmaline’s film Atlantic is a Sea of Bones on linking past, present, and future on the West Side Piers of Manhattan.

5:30pm: Closing Remarks
Author and director May Joseph (Fluid New York, Terra Aqua) shares some her recent work and reflects upon the day’s proceedings. Moderated by Tavia Nyong’o

 https://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/symposium_art_at_waters_edge

8.10.2022

Netflix, The Future Of: Skyscrapers w/ Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE



The Future Of: The Verge’s Netflix show about the future of everything is now streaming, see Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE in The Future Of: Skyscrapers S1:E10. Vox Media Studios, Maria Gabriella Pezzo, Sofia Melo.


Design Intelligence, Unlimited Pedagogy w/ TerreformX


Melanie Fessel, Mitchell Joachim, TerreformX, Q3 INFLUENCE: WORLD BUILDING Unlimited Pedagogy, Design Intelligence Quarterly, 2022. Michael LeFevre Editor, DI Media Group.

https://www.di-mediagroup.com/2022-quarterly/q3/unlimited-pedagogy/?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

6.08.2022

Digital Landscape Architecture (DLA 2022) Conference at Harvard University


https://vimeo.com/showcase/9664313/video/721215562

Digital Landscape Architecture Conference Coming to Harvard GSD June 9th-10th, 2022 hosted by Stephen M. Ervin. DLA2022’s keynote speakers are Mirka BeneÅ¡ of the University of Texas at Austin, Anya Domlesky, ASLA, Director of Research at SWA Group, and Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE / NYU.

https://thefield.asla.org/2022/04/26/digital-landscape-architecture-conference-coming-to-harvard-gsd/

6.02.2022

Design Hotels, Arena Keynote

Arena* 2022 in Crete from Design Hotels - Keynote with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE. Special thanks to Ksenia Starikova.

https://www.designhotels.com/arena/speakers/

RMIT University and UNSW Canberra Lecture

June 1st 2022, RMIT University and University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra, Lecture. Special thanks to; Olivier Cotsaftis and Nina Williams.  

Second Studio podcast with Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE


Second Studio Podcast #288 Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonne. An interview with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdF6eI97nB8

https://www.secondstudiopod.com/podcast-11/288-mitchell-joachim-co-founder-of-terreform-one

4.14.2022

Tallinn Architecture Biennale with Terreform ONE, Mitchell Joachim


Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB 2022) announced the program for its 6th edition that brings forward circularity in architecture. Under the theme "Edible; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism", this year's edition explores "architectural strategies for local production and self-sufficiency" and highlights ways of reusing waste resulting from urban environments. Curated by Lydia Kallipoliti and Areti Markopoulou, in collaboration with local advisor Ivan Sergejev and assistant curator Sonia Sobrino Ralston, TAB 2022 reflects on the possibilities that natural metabolical processes can bring to cities and buildings when transferred to the domain of architecture.

Running from September 7th to October 31st, TAB 2022 brings five main events: a Curatorial Exhibition, a Symposium, a Vision Competition Exhibition, an Installation Program and an International Architecture Schools' Exhibition, accompanied by satellite events. The architectural event brings together contributions from The Cooper Union, IAAC-Advanced Architecture Group, Terreform ONE, Office for Political Innovation and AMO/OMA.

4.13.2022

Earth Day 2022: Life Force w/ Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE

Earth Day 2022: Life Force, Livestreamed from James Chapel, Union Theological Seminary, at 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. (New York time)

Scheduled participants include:

Bill McKibben | Gavin Schmidt | Jacqui Patterson

Jody Sperling | Karenna Gore | Kate Marvel | Rev. Lennox Yearwood

Lyla June | Mike Massimino | Miranda Massie | Mitchell Joachim

Pádraig Ó Tuama | Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky | Rev. Dr. Serene Jones

The New York City Labor Chorus

Convened by the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, in collaboration with Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky and The Climate Museum, Earth Day 2022 will bridge the gaps to foster ecological thought and action.

https://centerforearthethics.org/


3.25.2022

(Bio)Climate Change Symposium w/ Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE


(Bio)Climate Change Symposium 2022 (BCCS2022) 
Uluslararası Ä°klim Degisikligi Sempozyum. Ataturk University Faculty of Architecture and Design, Turkey.

3.09.2022

Biodesign CSM Lecture w/ Mitchell Joachim


Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London, MA Biodesign CSM Lecture Series Spring 2022 with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE.

Climate & Capital Media, The Podcast: Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE


Climate & Capital Media, LLC
The Podcast: Mitchell Joachim says our green future is tree houses and balloon busses
by Jared Downing | Mar 04, 2022

The "speculative urbanist" Mitchell Joachim discusses his Terreform ONE project and the innovations that could power the green cities of the future. They include systems, structures and technologies meant to put humans in harmony with nature, including using humanely-farmed crickets as a food supply, printing cell-cultured vegan leather, getting around cities on chairs carried by balloons, and houses made from living trees.