EcoLogicStudio

ecoLogicStudio is an architecture and design innovation firm specialized in biotechnology for the built environment co-founded in London in 2005 by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto. In 2018, ecoLogicStudio has launched the PhotoSynthetica venture with academic partners Synthetic Landscape Lab at the University of Innsbruck and the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at UCL London. The studio has built an international reputation for its innovative projects integrating systemic thinking, computational design, biotechnology and digital prototyping. This “broadened” approach to design, ranging from the micro to the global scales, is embodied into an experimental practice where each project becomes a laboratory, a real test bed of future models of inhabitation of the Urbansphere. ecoLogicStudio is currently developing scalable nature based solutions to the many challenges facing contemporary cities in their quest to carbon neutrality and to offset the effects of climate change. Completed projects include several installations and experimental pavilions, a public library and a private house, a large eco-roof as well as several urban blue-green planning proposals. Among the most prominent projects is the AirBubble air-purifying eco-machine for Otrivin® at COP26 in Glasgow and AirBubble in Warsaw, 2021; HORTUS XL for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2019; the metaFolly for the 9th Archilab, 2014, and “Les Jardins fluviaux de la Loire” for the First Biennale of Orleans, 2017; HORTUS Paris for the EDF Foundation, 2013, and HORTUS ZKM for Globale, 2016 and SuperTree for Futurium Berlin, 2018. ecoLogicStudio was repeatedly invited to feature its work at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, in 2008 with STEMv3.0 the lagoon experiment, in 2010 with The Ecological Footprint Grotto, in 2016 with Solana Open Aviary and in 2021 with BIT.BIO.BOT and UrbanSphere. Other major exhibitions are STEMcloud for the Seville Biennale 2008, and Fibrous Room in Istanbul 2008. Three major experimental pavilions have been recently completed, the Urban Algae Folly for Milan EXPO2015, the BIO.tech HUT for EXPO Astana2017 and UAF Aarhus, for Aarhus Capital of Culture 2017. ecoLogicStudio has also completed the first bio-digital photosynthetic building facade, installed in Dublin and Helsinki in 2018.

The projects “metaFolly” and “Les Jardins fluviaux de la Loire” are both now part of the celebrated permanent collection of the FRAC Center in Orleans, while HORTUS has been purchased by the ZKM in Karlsruhe. HORTUS ZKM has also won the prestigious Idea-Tops Award as best digital architecture, while bioTech.HUT was a finalist at the World Architecture Festival in 2018. The PhotoSynthEtica cladding system has received the Award of Excellence from the European Commission in 2018. ecoLogicStudio has also recently been involved in a series of urban blue-green planning projects in Ulcinj (Montenegro), Orleans (France), Aarhus (Denmark), Barcelona (Spain) and Tallinn (Estonia); their research and work on the Tallinn’s peninsula was the main theme of the 4th Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2017, titled BioTallinn. ecoLogicStudio was commissioned the leading curatorial role of the entire Biennale as well as the design and production of the main curated exhibition. In 2019, ecoLogicStudio has started a collaboration with the UNDP to develop a green planning workflow integrating Artificial Intelligence titled DeepGreen. The work of ecoLogicStudio has been featured in many international architectural books and magazines. Metropolis Magazine (New York) nominated ecoLogicStudio among the 10 most interesting global emergent practices of 2014. Claudia Pasquero, director of ecoLogicStudio has been included in the top 10 of Wired Smart List 2017, selecting global innovation rising stars. Fast Company has awarded ecoLogicStudio with an honourable mention for World Changing Ideas.

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