The material, infrastructural, social, and ecological conditions of the UK's post-industrial wasteland are a result of mass industrial decentralisation. Post-Industrial Ephemera identifies these conditions as a site of rich architectural opportunity and proposes a novel, networked biomaterial production facility and centre of industrial heritage.

Developed in parallel with novel biomaterial innovation, the project employs data-driven design processes and functionally graded 3D printing fabrication methods to propose a symbiotic post-waste architecture, which reinterprets the highly toxic wastelands as a site of rich material opportunity.

In its generation, the network algorithmically employs live environmental data-streams alongside digital studies into reparative bacterial growth to propose an architecture which symbiotically swarms the vast material wasteland in search of toxic biomaterial inputs from which to grow.

At the end of its life, through the orchestrated decay of the biomaterial over time, the buildings return to the biome, entering a cyclical material ecology which allows the network to constantly grow, evolve, and respond to the site's dynamic condition over time.