InnoRenew CoE is coordinating the REMEDY project in which researchers are making innovative façade coatings that integrate selected microorganisms, aiming to bring building walls to life with the ability to protect surfaces, store carbon dioxide (CO2), and filter harmful pollutants from the air.

The innovative solution is currently being developed by the international team of scientists at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, which aims to transform lifeless building surfaces into bioactive, multifunctional layers.

REMEDY ambition is to achieve a breakthrough in fundamental research in microbiology and synthetic biology, transfer the know-how to materialsscience in the form of engineered living materials, and develop compatible biofabrication processes that allow personalised design in the architectural context.

Read more about the current activities in the project in the article “Living tattoos for buildings could turn city walls into pollution-fighting surfaces”, published online in Interesting Engineering.