The Microbi(h)ome looks at how humans fit into a global-level ecosystem from the micro to the macro, sustaining the existing relationship between the human body and associated microbes that humans depend on to live, physiologically and in the context of our built environment.

Introducing the Microbi(H)ome as a model, we aim to facilitate a shift towards a resilient building, with REACTive symbiotic relationships among microbial communities, human inhabitants, and the environment. This complex interactive dwelling embraces the microbial community as a means to enhance our connection with nature via our built environment and secure a system that provides us with renewable resources, by utilizing the naturally occurring capabilities of microbes. As a result the home is ADAPTive in responding to the needs of its inhabitants and its ecosystem while it elaborates form, structure and function in reaction to the contemporary global environmental and social stresses.

Credits: design principal: i.mazzoleni | project team: l.dompé, r.molina, h.alexander | consultant: s.price, phd evolutionary biologist