This is a vertical elective combining students in their fourth and fifth year of the BArch program with students from the architecture graduate programs. The content of the elective options varies from year to year, and covers advanced topics that invite critical thinking and innovation in the area of building technology.SECTION DESCRIPTIONThis Building Technology seminar will focus on the threshold where nature [exterior] and building [interior] meet. This zone is commonly understood as a controlled border engineered to exclude natural systems and species to prioritize and maximize human comfort. What would it mean to rethink this relationship? Could there be a more symbiotic relationship with living systems? Could the reframing of this duality impact the relationship of architecture in unexpected spatial and material ways? Furthermore, can we create an architectural interface which is part of a circular regenerative living system operating at multi-scales and with multi-species? As participants of the Biodesign Challenge held yearly in New York City, this course will look toward biological processes of growth, self-assembly and adaptation, to uncover inventive methods of fabrication which can expand human construction to integrate living systems.

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