BIO2DXB offers visitors a unique interactive design experience and a glimpse of a world of endless possibilities for a regenerative design future. BIO2DXB aims to demonstrate a model for the future of living that enhances the cultivation and use of local micro algae in the built environment.

 

BIO2DXB acts as a large-scale bioreactor used as a medium for micro-algae cultivation. The installation emphasizes on the vast benefits of microalgae as they are responsible for 1/3 of the world’s carbon fixation and produce about 70% of the atmospheric oxygen.

 

Microalgae can not only create clean renewable biofuels, but also remediate wastewater and create bio chemicals, pharmaceutical products, fertilizer, bio plastics and cosmetics.

 

Using a modular, prototypical system of panels with a pattern inspired by Kufic Arabic script, the installation will be ever-changing in color and appearance during the event indicating the different stages, volumes, and densities in the lifecycle of the microalgae.

 

It is estimated that 80% of energy consumption in the UAE is from the building industry. BIO2DXB aims to raise awareness on energy efficient and regenerative design that encourages the use of local micro-algae species in the future of the built environment of the UAE.