EcoLogicStudio in London has designed an Urban Algae Canopy, which produces
the same amount of oxygen daily as a forest of 40,000 square meters.
This cutting-edge technology was unveiled this week at Expo Milano 2015 Future
Food District.
The prototype is the world’s first bio-digital canopy, integrating micro-algal cultures
and real time digital cultivation protocols within a unique architectural cladding system.
Once completed, the Urban Algae Canopy will produce the oxygen equivalent of four hectares of woodland and up to 150kg of biomass per day, 60% of which are natural vegetal proteins.
Designers say: “In EcoLogicStudio we believe that it is now time to overcome the segregation between technology and nature typical of the mechanical age, to embrace
a systemic understanding of architecture. In this prototype the boundaries between the material, spatial and technological dimensions have been carefully articulated to