Video Link: Contemporary Code: GrAB - Growing as Building from Ethan Vincent.

  Office for Design & Architecture SA, 28 Leigh Street Adelaide, AustraliaNovember 2016   GrAB was presented during the agile X 4 workshop, with extremely positive response.  

excerpt from an interview with co-project lead Barbara Imhof about the   Project “Growing As Building”

06.11.2015 | 18:24 | von Alice Grancy  (Die Presse)   Wer nach dem Vorbild der Natur gestalten will, muss zunächst verstehen, wie sie funktioniert. Dazu kooperieren an der Angewandten in Wien Architekten und Biologen.

Radio Ö1 - Leporello, Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2015, 07:52   Bauen und Biologie: Ausstellung "Built to Grow" in Wien Gebäude, die durch biologische und technologische Prozesse wachsen, die durch Selbstorganisation ihren Bauplatz finden, die sich dem Klima anpassen können, keinen Abfall produzieren und sich selbst auflösen können, wenn ihre Lebenszeit abgelaufen ist - was wie eine Utopie klingt, ist tatsächlich ein Forschungsprojekt am Innovation Lab der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien. Ein interdisziplinäres Team aus den Bereichen Architektur, Biologie, Kunst, Mechatronik und Robotik betreibt Grundlagenforschung, um eine neue, lebende Architektur zu entwickeln. Die Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts sind in der Ausstellung "Built to Grow - Blending Architecture and Biology" bis 7. November im AIL (Angewandte Innovation Laboratory) am Franz Josefs Kai zu sehen. Im November erscheint unter dem gleichen Titel auch ein Buch zum Thema.- Gestaltung: Sophi

Built to Grow Blending architecture and biology Book launch 6 November, 2015, 6 pm, AIL – Angewandte Innovation Laboratory

Built to Grow - Blending architecture and biology   Opening 12 October, 2015, 6 pmExhibition 13 October –7 November 2015Built to Grow investigates growth patterns and dynamics from nature and applies them to architecture with the goal of creating a new living architecture. Specific biological processes are presented in-depth to identify principles of growth and translate them into exemplary architectural ideas and visions. Thisartistic research project comprised an interdisciplinary team from the fields of architecture, biology, art, mechatronics and robotics. Panel discussion12 October, 2015, 6 pmModeration: Barbara Imhof Rachel Armstrong, experimental architecture, Newcastle University, School of Architecture, UK Petra Gruber, biomimetics, architecture, Ethiopian Institute ofArchitecture, Building Construction and City Development, Addis Ababa University, ET Angelo Vermeulen, art, ecology, Delft University of Technology, Participatory Systems Initiative, NL Thomas Speck

Publication > in a3 Bau Bionik Anwendungen und Visionen Reportage  > Bionik, die Symbiose aus Biologie und Technologie, führt auch in der Architektur zu Produkten und Visionen, die Arbeitsabläufe erleichtern, Objekte beständiger machen und nicht zuletzt die Nachhaltigkeit erhöhen.

Growing As Building 12. October - 7.November 2015 Angewandte Innovation Laboratory Franz Josefs Kai 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Dr. Petra Gruber was invited by CIBSE to present GrAB presented at the CIBSE seminar "Biomimetic Architecture", Arup, Fitzroy Street, London, UK, 19.11.2014   ONLINE: CIBSE - Intelligent Buildings Group Presentation NOW online >

The final workshop amongst all teammembers will take place on Monday 20.7. and Tuesday 21.7.2015 at the GrAB-Lab.   University of Applied Arts, Vordere Zollamtstrasse 3/Zwischengeschoß, H11-12, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Thursday, 22 January 2015 / Presentation Location: Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Franz-Joselfs-Kai 3, 1010 Vienna / Time: 17:30

Presentation Location: Fokus Forschung, Fersteltrakt 1. Stock Date: 22 May Time: 17:30

Discussion on March 25th 2014 with Rachel Armstrong, Petra Gruber, Julian Vincent, Angelo Vermeulen on *convergence*, *alive or not alive*, *biological paradigm and hybridisation*, *self-organsation*, *growing architecture - open versus closed*

GrAB - growing as building Workshop 2 - BIOLAB intro - experiments and reactors

Biornametics and GrAB - Growing As Building presented in the artistic research exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna  

Wednesday 9.10. - Friday 11.10.2013 – GrAB Project Space, Univeristy of Applied Arts Vienna – Topics: Quality Function Deployment, Role Models, Architectural Targets, Biolab

Introduction to Growing as Building – THURSDAY 10.10.2013 - 17.00 - 19.00 hrs  – Seminarraum A, attic, University of Applied Arts, 1010 Vienna, Austria  

join us for the first of three GrAB-GrowingAsBuilding workshops at the IoA/Angewandte

GrAB in the exhibition of the Museum of Applied Arts, opening November 2013 Out Of The Box

GrAB presented at Art(ist)s in Space (panel)  presentation “Shifting Perspectives” by Barbara Imhof

Shifting [Space] Perspectives: … Imhof’s final case study: a biomimetic project: called GrAB–Growing As Building and the recent book poses a question to GrAB and the predecessor project Biornametics: “What is the architect doing in the jungle?” [20] Architects, artists, biologists and physicists work together to find good architectural solutions from abstraction of good design from nature. [21] Finding innovative answers in integrating outside views may propel our capability to deal with our complex world and will shift our perspective. [22] … Article “Art(ist)s in Space [Panel], by Dr. Sarah Jane Pell

About GrAB: “Werkspionage in der Natur” Article by Susanne Mauthner-Weber, Kurier, May 2013

Artistic research projects: GrAB - Growing As Building 

Angewandte News: GrAB - Growing As Building

PEEK  AR202 “GrAB - Growing As Building” was approved on 26.11.2012. More information