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Rachel Armstrong: Architettura che si autoripara?

Filmed Jul 2009 • Posted Oct 2009TEDGlobal 2009
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In Italia, Venezia affonda sempre di più. Per salvarla, Rachel Armstrong afferma che è necessario superare l'architettura costituita da materiali inerti e servirsi di sistemi architettonici in grado di evolversi. Propone l'uso di un materiale semi-vivo che può autoripararsi e persino sottrarre carbonio all'atmosfera.

TED Fellow Rachel Armstrong is a sustainability innovator who creates new materials that possess some of the properties of living systems, and can be manipulated to "grow" architecture. Full bio »

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