LabStudio: Design Research between Architecture and Biology

“LabStudio: Design Research between Architecture and Biology” introduces a groundbreaking concept: the research design laboratory, where interdisciplinary collaboration between funded research and transdisciplinary participants leads to revolutionary advancements in science, design, and applied architectural practice. Through this book, both natural scientists and architects discover innovative approaches to traditional design studio and hypothesis-led research, which are complementary, iterative, experimental, and reciprocal. These approaches stem from 3-D spatial biology and generative design in architecture, fostering philosophies and practices characterized by high-risk, non-linear, and design-driven methodologies that often yield surprising results.

Authors Jenny E. Sabin, an architectural designer, and Peter Lloyd Jones, a spatial biologist, offer case studies, prototypes, and exercises from their practice, LabStudio. Through hundreds of color images, they illustrate a new model for integrated, open-ended, data-, systems-, and technology-driven methods. Readers can adopt these methods to achieve remarkable results in their own projects and research endeavors.