SimbioBrick II is a multiyear effort by DumoLab that stems from SimbioBrick I research on successfully encasing symbiotic plant-fungi relationships into bricks to passively clean urban air and soil. SimbioBriock II advances this biological principle into a scalable bio-receptive architectural vision able to deploy throughout urban settings and be entirely fabricated out of sustainable materials. It demonstrates portable systems for urban farming, traffic pollution and noise dampening, carbon capture, and lead in soil and marsh mycoremediation. This manifests in diverse format application conditions in historically and newly polluted conditions of the Fishtown neighborhood. It merges design, ecology, and policy to promote environmental justice.
- KEY CHALLENGE: Deployable urban bioremediation technologies for long-term ecological and social impact must ensure durable, standardized, and policy-supported mechanisms.
- POLICY INSIGHT: Policies should integrate bio-based construction standards and support bioremediating architecture to promote urban soil health, equity, and ecological resilience.
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