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Rachel Armstrong: Arquitetura que se auto restaura?

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Veneza, na Itália, está afundando. Para salvá-la, Rachel Armstrong diz que precisamos superar a arquitetura baseada em materiais inertes e, digamos, fazer arquitetura que se recria. Ela propõe um material praticamente vivo que faz sua própria restauração e que também seqüestra carbono.

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 »

Translated into Portuguese, Brazilian by Maurício Silva
Reviewed by Rafael Eufrasio
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