R&Sie architecture company’s project for the future Bangkok Art Museum feeds of the city’s pollution. Called Dusty Relief, the edifice will be surrounded by electrically charged wire that “grows fur” by statically attracting airborne filth.

R&Sie is working on other amazing projects, such as I’ve Heard About Node 1, which exploits ideas that make sense in computer-driven fabrication but have never been applied to architecture. Imagine a building where the needs and desires of its inhabitants are hot-wired to the shapes of walls and floors, which can be extended and updated ad hoc.

It would be built by a programmable assembly device dubbed the “viab,” a construction robot capable of improvising as it assembles walls, ducts, cables, and pipes.

The closest thing to a viab today is the contour crafter invented by Behrokh Khoshnevis, at the University of Southern California.

Nature has been doing something similar for eons. Termites build skyscrapers by spitting and smoothing mud, then removing the structure if it gets in the way. A mound is shaped by the activity of the society within it. Roche imagines his viab as a busy termite with a body full of wet cement. It crawls ceaselessly across the structure, spewing new form and gnawing out old form, obeying an algorithm directly linked to the needs of the people inside.

It can also work without people. Places too hostile for mankind, like the moon or Mars, would be a natural venue for the concept.

Via Archinect Wired.