@inproceedings{8245dada90834c259689ba92ea8d06d2,
title = "Thinking soils",
abstract = "The paper details the computational modelling work to define a new type of responsive material system based on genetcally engineered bacteria cells. We introduce the discipline of synthetc biology and show how it may be possible to program a cell to respond genetcally to inputs from its environment. We propose a system of synthetc biocementing, where engineered cells, living within a soil matrix, respond to pore pressure changes in their environment when the soil is loaded by synthesising new material and strengthening the soil. We develop a prototype CAD system which maps genetc responses of individual bacteria cells to geotechnical models of stress and pore pressure. We show different gene promoter sensitvites may make substantal changes to paterns of consolidation. We conclude by indicating future research in this area which combines both in vivo and in silico work.",
author = "Martyn Dade-Robertson and Corral, {Javier Rodriguez} and Helen Mitrani and Meng Zhang and Anil Wipat and Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa and Luis Hernan",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank the EPSRC for their support for the project: Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 CURRAN-CONFERENCE. All rights reserved.; 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture - Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines, ACADIA 2016 ; Conference date: 27-10-2016 Through 29-10-2016",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
series = "ACADIA 2016: Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines - Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture",
publisher = "Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture",
pages = "460--469",
editor = "Geoffrey Thun and Kathy Velikov and {del Campo}, Matias and Sean Ahlquist",
booktitle = "ACADIA 2016",
address = "United States",
}