It's Alive! Faulders Studio's Building Proposal Grows Its Own Facade

Geotube is a proposal for Dubai (natch) that self-generates a salt-based skin with seawater.

It's inevitable. We've been fighting the green revolution with buildings that act like animals and plants--take Enric Ruiz-Geli's Villa Nurbs, which squints its plastic bubble eyes in the sun, or Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences, with a rolling green skin that breathes in the wind--and now here's a proposal for a building that grows on its own. Efficient, biomimetic design, or one step away from "I...