Martyn Dade-Robertson

  • Professor of Emerging Technology, Co-director of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Newcastle University
Vue imaginaire de l’intérieur d’un « bâtiment vivant ». Assia Stefanova/Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment

Les bâtiments de demain seront… vivants !

Des blocs de construction en champignons au béton auto-cicatrisant, l’architecture utilise la biotechnologie pour donner vie aux bâtiments.
Illustration of pressure sensing bacteria in soils from the ‘Computational Colloids Project’. Carolina Ramirez-Figuroa, Luis Hernan and Martyn Dade-Robertson

The cities of the future could be built by microbes

Bacteria can produce their own ‘buildings’ so scientists are genetically engineering them to build ours.

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