Radical Vernacular: Bacterial Architecture on Mars
Radical Vernacular: Bacterial Architecture on Mars
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激进白话：火星上的细菌结构
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2014
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Meng Zhang
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M. Dade;Carolina Ramirez;Meng Zhang
我们目前关于其他星球殖民的思辨话语倾向于通过高科技建筑的视角来考虑未来的建筑。然而，我们认为，生物技术的发展将使各种建筑成为可能，这些建筑甚至超出了我们目前的科幻小说。这篇论文提出了在火星上建造建筑的概念框架下的生物工程建筑材料的论点。它介绍了生物矿化及其过程和应用的概念，并重点介绍了某些菌株的碳酸钙的产生。我们建议，通过将这一过程与合成生物学（细菌被设计成在其他星球上生存并对环境做出反应）结合起来，一种建筑过程出现了，在这种过程中，材料是适应性的，在某种程度上，是与环境相关的自我构建。论文最后推测了一个建筑过程，其中包括使用生物工程细菌来巩固在火星表面发现的材料，以创造功能分级的材料和结构。
Our current speculative discourse on the colonisation of other planets tends to consider future buildings through the lens of hitech architecture. However, we suggest that developments in biotechnology will enable types of construction which are beyond even our current science fictions. The paper presents an argument for bioengineered building materials framed by the notion of constructing buildings on Mars. It introduces the concept of biomineralisation and its processes and applications, and focuses on the creation of calcium carbonate by certain strains of bacteria. We will suggest that by utilising this process in conjunction with synthetic biology (where bacteria are engineered to survive and respond to the environment on other planets) a building process emerges where the materials are adaptive and, to some extent, self-constructed in relation to their environments. The paper concludes by speculating about a building process involving the use of bioengineered bacteria to consolidate materials, found on the surface of Mars, to create materials and structures which are functionally graded.