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Fungal Architectures
Project
Phil Ayres, Adrien Rigobello, Ji You-Wen, Claudia Colmo, Jack Young, Karl-Johan Sørensen, Tereza Veselá
Collaborators
Unconventional Computing Laboratory – University of the West of England, Bristol (UK) Microbiology Group – University of Utrecht (NL) MOGU srl (IT)
Research Project
How can fungal materials impact architecture?
The Fungal Architecture project is an EU-funded interdisciplinary research project exploring the material domain of mycelium-based composites within a built environment context.
Fungal Architecture seeks to move beyond the idea of ‘replacing’ fossil-based materials and investigates the potential tectonics, spatial organisation, relationship to a local area and aesthetics of fungal architecture, whilst respecting the planetary boundaries.
By conducting experiments in the growing of mycelium-based composites, Fungal Architecture has developed scientific knowledge and craft know-how in producing materials with tuned mechanical, functional and aesthetic properties. In the installation, Fungal Architecture demonstrate some of these qualities resulting from the use of different waste streams used as substrates, gathered locally.
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