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在第十九届威尼斯国际建筑双年展上，由Winy Maas领导、隶属代尔夫特理工大学的研究智库The Why Factory，与视觉艺术家Federico Díaz共同发布了作品《BIOTOPIA：繁衍结构》（BIOTOPIA: Propagative Structures），作为受策展人Carlo Ratti邀请参与的主展内容之一，对主题“智能：自然·人工·共生”（Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.）做出回应。BIOTOPIA是一个大胆的愿景，描绘了一个充满生命与演化的星球，呼吁人们重新思考设计方式，提出一个以生物为一切基础的未来。该作品通过两部分构成这一愿景：一是雕塑装置，展现不断变化的生命物质；二是一部影片，描绘了这一未来蓝图。该作品将于2025年5月10日至11月23日在阿森纳兵工厂的Corderie展区展出。

At the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Why Factory – a think tank and research institute led by Winy Maas at the Delft University of Technology – alongside visual artist Federico Díaz unveiled BIOTOPIA, their joint contribution to the main exhibition curated by Carlo Ratti under the theme Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. BIOTOPIA is a bold vision for a living, evolving planet and a call to reimagine design, proposing a future where biology becomes the foundation of everything. The presentation brings this vision to life through two related elements: a sculptural installation that explores the idea of living matter in continuous transformation, alongside a film that visualises this future. The work will be on view at the Corderie dell’Arsenale from May 10 to November 23, 2025.

▼装置概览，overview of the installation © Celestia Studio

如何将地球转变为可持续容纳80多亿人类及无数其他物种的家园？BIOTOPIA是一次关于梦想与行动的召唤：城市变为森林，建筑如树木般生长，街道被生物发光体照亮，生机盎然。它提出一种不仅与自然共生，而是“作为自然”的设计理念。其核心构想为“全球海绵”（Global Sponge）：一种能降温、净水、发电、栖居的动态生命建筑体，如同生物体般不断生长、收缩与再生，实现生物与技术的无缝整合。

How can we transform our planet into a sustainable home for over 8 billion humans – and countless other species? BIOTOPIA is an invitation to dream and act: to imagine cities becoming forests, architecture growing like trees, and streets illuminated by bioluminescent lighting, alive with biodiversity. It envisions a world designed not just with nature, but as nature. At the heart of BIOTOPIA lies the vision of a global Sponge: a dynamic bio-matter architecture that cools, filters water, generates energy, and shelters life while adapting like a living organism. This bio-matter grows, shrinks, and regenerates, creating a seamless, sustainable integration of biology and technology.

▼《繁衍结构》雕塑装置与影片， Sculpture installation and film of BIOTOPIA: Propagative Structures © Celestia Studio

由Winy Maas教授执导、The Why Factory制作的BIOTOPIA影片，构想了一个由生命物质构成的人类聚居系统，能够自我维持与更新。它倡导从当前不可回收的设计逻辑中脱离，迈向一个模仿自然、可再生、无废弃的建筑未来。该构想基于The Why Factory多年研究成果，并由代尔夫特理工大学与布拉格捷克理工大学的设计工作坊推动完成，挑战传统建筑观念，提出将生物、技术与集体智能深度融合，以重塑我们与地球的关系。

The BIOTOPIA film, directed by Professor Winy Maas and produced by The Why Factory, imagines a future where bio-matter transforms human settlements into self-sustaining systems. It advocates a shift from today’s largely unrecyclable design processes to a future where architecture mirrors nature – fully integrated, regenerative, and waste-free. Rooted in years of research initiated at The Why Factory (T?F) and developed through design studios at TU Delft and CTU in Prague, BIOTOPIA challenges traditional notions of architecture. It envisions a radical integration of biology, technology, and collective intelligence to rethink how we inhabit the planet.

▼装置呈现了一种由生命物质构成的人类聚居系统，The device presents a human settlement system composed of living matter © Celestia Studio

“如今，万物皆为生物，皆属自然。” Winy Maas表示，“我们在技术与空间上能如何创新？自然科学、自动化、纳米材料、机器人、生物技术与仿生学，如何为人类与其他生命体之间建立全新关系？让我们共同发明，尽情想象BIOTOPIA。”

“Today, more than ever, everything is biology. Everything is nature”, says Winy Maas. “What can we innovate, technically and spatially? How can natural sciences, automation, nanomaterials, robotics, biotechnology, or biomimicry contribute to establishing new relationships among humans and all other living organisms? Let’s invent and dream. Let’s imagine Biotopia.”

▼装置细部，details of the device © Celestia Studio

《繁衍结构》装置由艺术家Federico Díaz设计并实现，以雕塑语言呈现“持续演化的生命物质”理念。“我们并不在设计完成品，而是在启动生命过程。” Díaz表示，“《繁衍结构》将建筑视为一种如生物般成长、适应、并最终分解的存在，使建成环境成为地球代谢循环的伙伴，而非破坏者。”

The Propagative Structures installation, designed and realised by visual artist Federico Díaz, gives sculptural form to the idea of living matter in continuous transformation. “We are not designing finished objects—we are initiating life processes”, says Díaz. “Propagative Structures explores architecture as something that grows, adapts, and eventually decomposes, just like living organisms. In this way, the built environment becomes a partner in the metabolic flows of the planet, not a disruption.”

▼材料细部，details of material © Celestia Studio

Díaz的创作建立在对仿生学、算法设计与适应性结构的长期研究基础上，提出建筑应作为生态系统的主动参与者。他借鉴红树林根系等自然系统的智能与韧性，探索未来建筑如何生长、演变、乃至分解。《繁衍结构》捕捉了这一过程中的一个片段：形式并非预设，而是在数据、材料与环境交互中生成。这也暗示，未来的栖居空间或许不再“建造”，而是“培育”而成。

Emerging from long-standing research into biomimicry, algorithmic design, and adaptive structures, Díaz’s work proposes architecture as an active participant in ecological cycles. The installation draws on the resilience and intelligence of natural systems, such as mangrove root networks, to explore how structures might one day grow, adapt, and decompose like living organisms. Propagative Structures captures a moment in this unfolding process: a hybrid entity where form is not fixed, but generated through interaction between data, material, and environment. It suggests that future habitats could emerge not through construction, but through cultivation.

▼《繁衍结构》影片，The film of BIOTOPIA: Propagative Structures © The Why Factory

▼视频截帧，Video frame capture © The Why Factory

《BIOTOPIA：繁衍结构》得到了荷兰创意产业基金会（Creative Industries Fund NL）的资助，该基金支持受邀参加本届双年展的荷兰建筑师、景观设计师、空间设计师与研究人员。

BIOTOPIA: Propagative Structures was made possible by a grant from the Creative Industries Fund NL, which supports projects by Dutch architects, landscape architects, spatial designers, and researchers invited to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti.

▼视频截帧，Video frame capture © The Why Factory

Facts Project Name: BIOTOPIA
Location: Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Year: 2025
Film A film by The Why Factory, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Team: Winy Maas, Javier Arpa Fernández, Yayun Lui, Thiago Maso, Adrien Ravon,Bryan Lee, Kai Jie Forbes Tee
Soundscape: Jaap Berends, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Special thanks:
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, The Netherlands
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Faculty of Architecture – Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
MVRDV Next, Rotterdam, The Netherlands We thank all the students who contributed to the successive Biotopia design studios and research projects.
Propagative Structures
Artist: Federico Diaz
Team: Jonáš Kolařík, Barbara Holomková, Daniel Marko, Dimitri Nikitin, Petr Pufler, Záviš Unzeitig, Jen Kratochvil
Special thanks: SO Concrete

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The Why Factory and artist Federico Díaz present BIOTOPIA: Propagative Structures at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025