YARAT Education presents 'THE BIOSPERE 2': a lecture by Antonio Castelbranco

Lecture: 'The Biospere 2'

Antonio Castelbranco, Architect (Lisbon Technical University)

26 August 2013, at 19:00

UNS Creative Stage

YARAT Contemporary Art Space and Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction cordially invite you to a lecture by architect Antonio Castelbranco (Lisbon Technical University). The topic of the lecture is 'The Biospere 2' and other lessons about sustainability in architecture and urban planning, which will be held in English with Russian translation.

Biosphere 2 is an Earth systems science research facility. Owned by the University of Arizona since 2011, its mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe. It is a 3.14-acre (1.27-hectare) structure originally built to be an artificial, materially closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona, US by Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustine, CEO. Constructed between 1987 and 1991, it explored the web of interactions within life systems in a structure with five areas based on biomes, and an agricultural area and human living and working space to study the interactions between humans, farming and technology with the rest of nature. It also explored the use of closed biospheres in space colonization, and allowed the study and manipulation of a biosphere without harming Earth's. The name comes from Earth's biosphere, 'Biosphere 1'.

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