Achitectonicus Vitalis

Project idea

Achitectonicus Vitalis
The 21st century was marked by the abandonment of the traditional organic ties necessary until then to maintain human life. With the perfection of technology and the mastery of genetic manipulation techniques, it became possible for the human race of that time to reach longevity hitherto unheard of. This mastery also extended to most human needs, making activities previously necessary, such as breeding animals for slaughter, obsolete.
At the end of the 22nd century, due to the great need for consumption of natural raw materials resulting from the overpopulation generated by genetic evolutions obtained in the previous century, it became necessary to improve techniques, such as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), in order to meet this human need. After decades of study, it was concluded that the most adequate way to meet these demands and, furthermore, to elevate humanity to a new era, would be with the development and creation of a new animal species called Architectonicus Vitalis. This would become the complete built environment, from the infrastructure to the human habitat generated from the manipulation of DNA that creates organic structures that by design were conceived to serve specific purposes.
This new being was designed in such a way as to re-nature human action, safeguard scarce natural reserves and bring environmental balance. From that moment on, there would be no more trash, debris, or pollution.
Achitectonicus Vitalis (Vital Architecture or living project) comes with capacities sized to meet demands. Each of them has a symbiotic relationship with humanity and is unique as an organism, albeit with common characteristics that result from their need to adapt to the environment. The human being of that time gradually began to abandon their old cities of concrete and glass, to live in the new, the unknown - to abolish the old tradition, and over time, once again our species did what makes it so special, adapt.
In this Brave New World, unlike what we were told in the old story of Aldous Huxley, time was not counted from Ford and his machines, but from a living and cellular organism. The consumption and ideologies allied with the alienator SOMA had to be overcome.
For a long time it was believed that mechanical technology with its automobiles and elevators would make man rise without his feet ever touching the ground, but time has shown another, more prosperous and effective answer, which has made possible what we are today, no more, no less.

Project description

Life begins with the egg, modeled after the needs and peculiarities which it will be submitted. Should be placed in an area of soil that meets the generic climatic characteristics for which it was developed.

˻The third to fifth month the soil begins to be penetrated by an elastic muscle tissue with suction cups that stabilizes and prepares to its growth.

˻In the eighth month begins to emerge by a membrane under the ground the excretory bag, which will only have specific dimensions in that mature creature.

˻In the tenth month, the egg begins to shapeshift with hollow and thin membrane openings that will become a pneumatic bone structure that will protect the vital organs allocated permanently in the full-bodied base.

˻In the second stage of its development, with 24 months, the pneumatic bone structure grows in a spiral form with an accompanying single floor of the basement to the top.

˻The first humans can already use it, scaled-down, since its maturation just occurred at the end of 60 months, thereby will have their dimensions and capacities fully affected.


˻The longevity of an Architectonicus Vitalis is uncertain, living on average three centuries.

˻To achieve your end as a living organism, it metamorphoses itself again, first as a monument, then in a nook to animal life, and gradually will fall apart, decomposing, its matter falls inward, coming to Earth, making the soil more fertile than it has been before.

Technical information

With a slow metabolism which provides a lower energy expenditure, exist in a symbiotic way with humans, feeding on their trash. Its outer membrane has necessary functions to the comfort, with pigment cell structure dynamics and pores where which is absorbed by the water. When necessary, there is a fluff grow which seeks to balance the internal temperature. Lighting is provided by bioluminescence following the Circadian cycle, guided by the perception of variation between day and night, light and dark.