main question

How can we dramatically transform urban environments through building-integrated agriculture?

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Prototype Development at New Lab

Modular System Prototype

Active Airflow

Indoor air containing potentially containing harmful VOCs, a byproduct on many indoor materials, furnishing, and finishes, is activley pulled through the root rhizosphere of plants where associated microgransism are able to metabolize these compounds into benign matter.

AMPS System Prototype and Demonstration Unit

Rhizodegredation

Rhizodegredation is the process by which microorganisms associated with the roots of plants metabolize organic compounds such as those typically found in many building materials, converting pollutants known to be harmful to human health into harmless compounds.

AMPS Lab Scale Unit

Extensive Laboratory testing provides a baseline of plant-based systems for building-scale applications.

Prototype Fabrication

Investigating Geometry to maximize fabrication effiiency using 48 Fold Symmetry

Architectural Performance of Minimal Surfaces

AMPS Prototypes have explored multiple systems geometries including the I-WP Triply Periodic Minimal Surface discovered by Alan Schoen for NASA in 1970. Geometric development combines multiple strucural, fabrication, and system performances to maximize greenwall efficiency.

Geometric Potentials

Investigating multiple morphologies of greenwall geometry to achieve multiple spatial conditions.

Prototype Tending

Multi-scalar test beds

From laboratory, to room, to zone, to building scale are engaged to provide characterization not only of fundamental system functions at the chemical level, but to characterize these performances within the complexities and matrix behaviors of the built environment context.

Room Scale Experimental Test Beds

Systems are studied in vivo to understand system performance at room scale.