{"id":28856,"date":"2016-08-11T23:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T06:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/forget-concrete-and-cement-darpa-thinks-skin-and-bone-make-better-building-blocks"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:25:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:25:57","slug":"forget-concrete-and-cement-darpa-thinks-skin-and-bone-make-better-building-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/forget-concrete-and-cement-darpa-thinks-skin-and-bone-make-better-building-blocks","title":{"rendered":"Forget concrete and cement. DARPA thinks skin and bone make better building blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forget-concrete-and-cement-darpa-thinks-skin-and-bone-make-better-building-blocks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever seen the movie called \u201cThe Haunting\u201d with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta-Jones? If you have; you will appreciate this article. A living building.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The US\u2019s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to build living, self-healing, programmable buildings.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA\u2019s Engineered Living Materials (ELM) program imagines that materials like bone, skin, bark and coral could form future building blocks as they provide advantages over non-living materials built with today, in that they can be grown where needed, self-repair when damaged and respond to changes in their surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vision of the ELM program is to grow materials on demand where they are needed,\u201d said ELM program manager, Justin Gallivan.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/factor-tech.com\/future-cities\/23808-forget-concrete-and-cement-darpa-thinks-skin-and-bone-make-better-building-blocks\/\">http:\/\/factor-tech.com\/future-cities\/23808-forget-concrete-a...ng-blocks\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen the movie called \u201cThe Haunting\u201d with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta-Jones? If you have; you will appreciate this article. A living building. The US\u2019s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to build living, self-healing, programmable buildings. DARPA\u2019s Engineered Living Materials (ELM) program imagines that materials like bone, skin, bark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66611,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28856\/revisions\/66611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}