Vice Magazine and Motherboard TV Presents: The Living House
by Jedd Thomas & Alex Pasternack
Imagine a future where the cities we live in are built in accordance
with nature, where buildings are designed to incorporate features from
ecological systems without compromising technological innovation or the
quality of the environment. If it sounds like wishful thinking – or
science fiction – have a look at what Mitchell Joachim is brewing at the
architecture and urban think tank Terreform ONE / Planetary ONE.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, it’s the first architectural office that
works in tandem with a biology laboratory, uniting an ambitious group of
architects, synthetic biologists, and urban planners to bring a
promising vision of the city quite literally to life.