SPOTLIGHT: Ordinary Studio | "ORDINARY DISPATCH #1"

"Ordinary Ltd, an East London-based studio primarily focused on creative investigations
at the intersection of architecture, design, material sciences and theory." Ordinary was founded by Magnus Larsson and Alex Kaiser. Larsson has a BA (hons) from Oxford. He started off as a journalist and later attended the Architectural Association where he proposed "Dune," a 6,000km long habitable anti-desertification wall made of biologically solidified bacterial sandstone." Kaiser too has a BA (hons) from Oxford. He began his career in design and followed a similar route, attending the Architectural Association in London.

Ordinary Dispatch #1 is a "communiqué keeping our nearest and dearest updated on the latest news from Ordinary Ltd."

Here's a PREVIEW of what it FEATURES:

Crystal City for Selfridges, Festival of Imagination

"Curated by Chris Hatherill (super/collider), the Growing the Future exhibition and series of workshops envisage a future made from truly renewable materials. With Ordinary co-founder Alex Kaiser leading the design team, our contribution is Crystal City, a glittering metropolis made from supersaturated crystal solutions, created in a four-week collaboration with visitors to Selfridges."

>>> http://ordinarystudio.com/Crystal-City

LOG: F2F Phase Finished

"Our F2F (file-to-factory) groundscraper – a building at the scale of a city – responds and adjusts to a series of site conditions in order to establish optimal conditions for its gridshell structure to support multi-storey living units that are “slotted” into the main framework."

>>> http://ordinarystudio.com/File-to-Factory-2-0 

Invincible Cities for the Materiomic Age

"As is our wont, our latest scientific chapter was just published in yet another book with a snappy title."

>>> http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-37661-0_4

FULL Dispatch #1:

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Larsson, Magnus, and Alex Kaiser. " Ordinary Dispatch #1." Ordinary. Ordinary Studio, Feb. 2014. Web. 07 Feb. 2014.

Spotlight: Ordinary [Magnus Larsson & Alex Kaiser] - "Dune"

"A vast 3D printer made of bacteria crawls undetectably through the deserts of the world, printing new landscapes into existence over the course of 10,000 years..."

- Geoff Manaugh/BLDGBLOG

A 6,000km long stretch of solidified sand dunes is proposed, which will architecturally support the Green Wall Sahara initiative: 24 African countries coming together to plant a shelterbelt of trees right across the continent, from Mauritania in the west to Djibouti in the east, in order to mitigate against the encroaching desert. Sand is solidified into a habitable structure that protects from sand; a permacultural anti-desertification network made from the desert itself.

A particular microorganism, Bacillus Pasteurii, is flushed through the dunescape (an analogy could be made to an oversized 3D printer), which causes a biological reaction that turns the sand into solid sandstone. The initial reactions finish within 24 hours; it would take about a week to saturate the sand enough to make the structure habitable. The bacteria are non-patogenic and die in the process of solidifying the sand. This part of the project relies upon research carried out by professor Jason De Jong's team at the Soil Interactions Laboratory, UC Davis, as well as conversations with professor Stefano Ciurli at the University of Bologna.

Dune Project Page | Ordinary [Magnus Larsson & Alex Kaiser]