Design review | Restoring lost biodiversity

https://issuu.com/loucaanastasiou/docs/loucas_anastasiou_2020_portfolio_sample_pages

Tissue Culture Research and Production

Today, the total woodland coverage of Britain is at a mere 13%, the lowest in Europe. For hundreds of years, woodland has been cultivated for timber resources that have fuelled industries up and down the country. This has left Britain with an ecological disconnect and only a handful of ancient woodland remaining.

This study explores a new and developing technology that can help restore the lost biodiversity of Britain at a mass rate. Tissue Culture essentially takes very small pieces of tissue from tree cuttings. Enabling the ability to multiply one tree into hundreds through jars of growth hormone liquid. This process requires controlled laboratory environments from which, this project is designed around.

As part of a new environmentally aware direction for the practice we will be looking to explore biodiversity and potentially some of this research through our future live projects.

Loucas Anastasiou / Architectural Assistant