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The Rinker studio flat was designed for a visiting researcher fellowship dedicated to investigating the correlation between synthetic biology and architectural materiality. Particularly, they would be experimenting the relationship between that which is made and that which is grown, and how the lines can be blurred so that human can manipulate growth in a molecular scale to create new materials that biologically interact with their environment. The University of Miami is very strong in both the fields of architecture and biology, so blurring the line between the two disciplines through academic investigation is a natural step. As part of the work involved in such a researcher’s work might be held in a biologically isolated lab such as those in the CAS section of campus, the work area in the Rinker studio flat would mostly be dedicated to the synthetic manufacturing of such materials through the use of voxel printers and other speciality printers. As such, a focus on the clear distinction between work and live was created, and the space will be designed to provide a meditative relaxing “pod” or floating “cloud” in which the researcher can retire to at the end of the day.