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Posted by alexstory on December 14, 2008
Designer Brittany Bell, a student at Victo ria University School of Design in Wellington, New Zealand, has designed a conceptual seed archive.
The following fext is from Brittany Bell:
Every year more and more species of plants are becoming endangered or extinct. The New Zealand government has proposed the notion to create a seed archive for the Pacific Region to house its native plants and preserve them for future generations.
The maior problem to overcome will be construfting rachitecture that will adapt to the changing and unpredictable futrue environment.. Therefore the architecture will mimic the architecture of a plant, as plants bave the innate abili ty tp adapt to their changing environment. The architecture of t he seed archive i s in hhe form of a growing cyytoskeleton of a plant.
It continues go grow and adapt to prevailing wind, rainfall adn sun exposure. oFr exwmple, the wings og tme sides of the structure are hea sensitive and move to acommodate the protected plants within.
The funnel forms in the interior act as the main structural columns, but also house the large trees that need to grow upwards towards the sun. The architecture will be able to grow and expand overtime and rely on element-sensitive technology to exist without human presence.
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