Building for DOE (NETL). Investment from Khosla Ventures and The Grantham Foundation has established DECOi inc to pioneer all-composite housing, which looks to bring construction into line with automated manufacturing and non-standard production. Particular focus is on use of emerging morphologies of carbon such as carbon nanotube, carbon foam, graphene, to re-orient use of hydrocarbons from fuels to building materials at a critical moment of global urban and population growth set against the backdrop of stringent environmental crisis. The work strives for a carbon ontology, displacing high energy-intensity, high-mass minerals and metals with the elegant and polyfunctional properties of the sixth element."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark Goulthorpe is an Assoc Prof at MIT Dept of Architecture, researching digital design and new materials to re-think building production. Recent projects include CarbonHouse for ARPA-e, and Carbon>Building for DOE (NETL). Investment from Khosla Ventures and The Grantham Foundation has established DECOi inc to pioneer all-composite housing, which looks to bring construction into line with automated manufacturing and non-standard production. Particular focus is on use of emerging morphologies of carbon such as carbon nanotube, carbon foam, graphene, to re-orient use of hydrocarbons from fuels to building materials at a critical moment of global urban and population growth set against the backdrop of stringent environmental crisis. The work strives for a carbon ontology, displacing high energy-intensity, high-mass minerals and metals with the elegant and polyfunctional properties of the sixth element.