TY - CHAP
T1 - BioMateriOME
T2 - to understand microbe-material interactions within sustainable, living architectures
AU - Delgado Corrales, Beatriz
AU - Kaiser, Romy
AU - Nerlich, Paula
AU - Agraviador, Armand
AU - Sherry, Angela
N1 - Funding information: This research is part of a series of prototypes developed in the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE). HBBE is funded by Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England (E3) scheme and is a joint initiative between Northumbria University and Newcastle University.
PY - 2023/5/1
Y1 - 2023/5/1
N2 - BioMateriOME evolved from a prototyping process which was informed from discussions between a team of designers, architects and microbiologists, when considering constructing with biomaterials or human cohabitation with novel living materials in the built environment. The prototype has two elements i) BioMateriOME-Public (BMP), an interactive public materials library, and ii) BioMateriOME-eXperimental (BMX), a replicated materials library for rigorous microbiome experimentation. The prototype was installed into the OME, a unique experimental living house, in order to 1) gain insights into society’s perceptions of living materials, and 2) perform a comparative analysis of indoor surface microbiome development on novel biomaterials in contrast to conventional indoor surfaces, respectively. This review summarises the BioMateriOME prototype and its use as a tool in combining microbiology, design, architecture and social science. The use of microbiology and biological components in the fabrication of biomaterials is provided, together with an appreciation of the microbial communities common to conventional indoor surfaces, and how these communities may change in response to the implementation of living materials in our homes. Societal perceptions of microbiomes and biomaterials, are considered within the framework of healthy architecture. Finally, features of architectural design with microbes in mind are introduced, with the possibility of codifying microbial surveillance into design and construction benchmarks, standards and regulations towards healthier buildings and their occupants.
AB - BioMateriOME evolved from a prototyping process which was informed from discussions between a team of designers, architects and microbiologists, when considering constructing with biomaterials or human cohabitation with novel living materials in the built environment. The prototype has two elements i) BioMateriOME-Public (BMP), an interactive public materials library, and ii) BioMateriOME-eXperimental (BMX), a replicated materials library for rigorous microbiome experimentation. The prototype was installed into the OME, a unique experimental living house, in order to 1) gain insights into society’s perceptions of living materials, and 2) perform a comparative analysis of indoor surface microbiome development on novel biomaterials in contrast to conventional indoor surfaces, respectively. This review summarises the BioMateriOME prototype and its use as a tool in combining microbiology, design, architecture and social science. The use of microbiology and biological components in the fabrication of biomaterials is provided, together with an appreciation of the microbial communities common to conventional indoor surfaces, and how these communities may change in response to the implementation of living materials in our homes. Societal perceptions of microbiomes and biomaterials, are considered within the framework of healthy architecture. Finally, features of architectural design with microbes in mind are introduced, with the possibility of codifying microbial surveillance into design and construction benchmarks, standards and regulations towards healthier buildings and their occupants.
KW - Surface microbiomes
KW - built environment
KW - materials library
KW - biomaterials
KW - healthy architectures
KW - material futures
KW - health & wellbeing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85146685064&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/bs.aambs.2022.11.001
DO - 10.1016/bs.aambs.2022.11.001
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Advances in Applied Microbiology
SP - 77
EP - 126
BT - Advances in Applied Microbiology
A2 - Gadd, Geoffrey Michael
A2 - Sariaslani, Sima
PB - Academic Press Inc.
CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands
ER -