Growing A House From Meat 133
baosol writes "From the boundary-pushing team of archi-visionaries who brought us the fabulous Fab Tree Hab comes a new (and somewhat disgusting) way to grow a structure — using animal flesh! The In Vitro Meat Habitat is a futuristic concept home composed of meat cells grown in a lab. The creator of the concept, Mitchell Joachim, is a futurist with a twist– he says he is actually developing the concept in a lab."
Exoskeleton (Score:1, Interesting)
Meat is a silly idea for many reasons. The smarter move would be growing an exoskeletal structure. Instead of meat imagine hard plates. I think that kind of bio-engineering will happen one day but it's decades if not centuries off. Once it happens we could see fully recyclable houses that can biodegrade. Instead of cutting down forests they would be grown using a nutrient mixture and could be grown on location. The final structure would be like a cross between a geodesic dome and a large insect. The structure could even be engineered to be flexible so in hurricanes or earthquakes it would flex instead of crumbling.
Perhaps vegetarian has its advantages (Score:2, Interesting)
Instead of meat, what about bioengineering trees to grow into more house-like shapes?
At least, if the tree dies, you've still got a solid wood structure.
Re:This idea stinks! (Score:3, Interesting)
If you put a nail in the wall, will it bleed? Will the house feel pain?