Growth after 3 Months
2024
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Calcium Carbonate (deposited through seawater electroylsis), Lazer Cut Iron
Gili Trawangan, Indonesia
The BioRock series is a project that explores the potential of seawater as an alternative building material to concrete. The series consists of three stools made from an iron frame designed to grow underwater over two years.
The process uses seawater electrolysis to grow a deposit of calcium carbonate around the metal frame similar to how corals grow exoskeletons using the minerals found in seawater. The result is a material comparable to concrete with many advantages; additive, low cost, low energy, low material consumption with greater compressive strength than concrete.
Seawater, and the minerals contained within it, are some of the most abundant materials in the world and yet remain largely disregarded as a possible solution to the environmental crisis caused by the construction industry.
In short, Biorock is a project that imitates nature in its deepest logic, finding low energy solutions with earth’s most abdudant materials.