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1 août 2020



MINERAL ACCRETION FACTORY : Mare Nostrum Side Project

Avec l’artiste Julien Berthier, nous avons été invité par Thomas Mailaender pour Mare Nostrum à Marseille. Ensemble, nous avons conçu une série d’objets-sculptures que la mer terminera. Immergés par 8 mètres de fond, les minéraux et les poissons s’occupent de la « touche finale ».

With the artist Julien Berthier, we were invited by Thomas Mailaender for Mare Nostrum in Marseille. Together, we designed a series of object-sculptures to be « finished by the sea ». They have been installed 8 meters deep in the sea. Minerals and fishes will take care of the “final 



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5 mars 2019



MINERAL ACCRETION FACTORY : contemporary fossils
Making of chairs from KGID, Thonet, immersed next to Eileen Gray’s side table E1027 in the Kelonia basins on Reunion Island.



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5 mars 2019



MINERAL ACCRETION FACTORY  :  OBJECT #1
The bench prototype made at ESA Réunion and immersed in the Kelonia basins in November 2016 was taken out of the water. After cleaning and sanding, the bench is operational, functional and ultra resistant. Let’s launch the series.



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22 novembre 2017



MINERAL ACCRETION FACTORY #2

Un an après le première immersion à Kelonia, état de lieux de l’avancée de l’accrétion. Elle est plus solide que prévue et de bonne tenue. Nous avons effectué un premier test de rectification des surfaces. Le résultat obtenu est positif. L’aspect est de bonne facture. Dans le cadre d’un workshop mené au sein de l’ESAR, avec les étudiants nous avons réalisé des éprouvettes dans le but d’observer comment se développe l’accrétion selon les types de grillages utilisés. Ces éprouvettes on été immergées. L’accrétion a commencé.



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26 novembre 2013



MINERAL ACCRETION FURNITURE
/// ONE YEAR /// ONE YEAR /// ONE YEAR /// ONE YEAR ///
After Biorock Workshop #5 / Still growing…
(pics by Delphine Robbe)



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26 septembre 2013



MINERAL ACCRETION FURNITURE
After Biorock Workshop #4 / Still growing…
News from Gili, 10 months later (September 2013)
(pics by Delphine Robbe)



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25 mars 2013



Mobilier Sous-Marin / Underwater Furniture.
By Maëlle Campagnoli,
published in À VIVRE #71 / march,april 2013
(a french architecture publication)



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14 janvier 2013



MINERAL ACCRETION FURNITURE
After Biorock Workshop #1
News from Gili, 2 months later



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5 décembre 2012


DIVE #4 (few days later after the workshop)

The mineral accretion starts.
The furnitures are already white of limestone.
Let’s wait almost two years…



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5 décembre 2012



ANODE INSTALL 

and let’s biorock



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5 décembre 2012



DIVE #3 (immersing mineral accretion furniture)

Pick up the table and the chair on the beach, bring them by boat, immerse, find the good place, connect, attach corals on it, having fun with Komang and Paulus… under the eyes of Thomas J. Goreau.



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5 décembre 2012



CONSTRUCTION #3 (Mineral accretion furnitures)

Trying to work more precisely…
By the ways, welding a table and a chair, put mesh on it to try to create surfaces.
Preparing the anode.



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5 décembre 2012



DIVE #2

Again, collect broken corals, immerse Biorock© structures builded on the beach, connect the structures, attach corals.



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5 décembre 2012



CONSTRUCTION #1 & #2

Workshop on the beach, high temperature, steel rebar, poor tools, welding machine…
Building biorock© structures to immerse them, trying to build “Mineral Accretion Furniture”



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5 décembre 2012



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Collect broken corals, Immerse steel structures, attach corals fragments onto Biorock…



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5 décembre 2012



8th BIOROCK© WORKSHOP in GILI (12/18 november 2012)

With the support of CN@P (Centre national des arts plastiques), i went there to launch the 1st Mineral Accretion Furniture Prototype.

“The Biorock process is an amazing reef restoration technology used in more than 20 countries world-wide to regenerate coral reefs, prevent beach erosion, restore fisheries habitat, and preserve and restore marine biodiversity. One of the largest Biorock programs in the world is in Gili Trawangan, Lombok NTB, Indonesia, where the Gili Eco Trust is organizing the 8th International Biorock Reef Restoration Training Workshop November 12-18, 2012.

Thank you for joining the workshop and for learning how to restore coral reefs with this fantastic technology. Dr. Tom Goreau, President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, and co-inventor of the Biorock technology, will give lectures and presentations on worldwide coral threats, coral diseases, global warming and their effects on coral reefs and beach erosion. The training will focus on Biorock Technology for reef restoration, including its design, construction, installation, monitoring, maintenance, and repair. 

The 8th Biorock workshop is hands-on training for coral reef restoration by building reefs and growing new coral and reconstructing eroded beaches. For a week with us on Gili Trawangan you will study coral reefs and build new ones out of Biorock. You will help expand the 65 existing Biorock reefs around the Gili Islands. You will dive around the Gilis and carefully collect broken corals and bring them to the new Biorock reef. Finally, you will watch the fish settling in and observe how the coral fragments you collect amazingly cement onto the steel structures.

If you have a site in need of reef restoration for tourism, shoreline protection, or fisheries, this is the place to learn how!”

Biorock-Workshop / Gili Eco Trust / Global Coral Reef Alliance