The Living
The Hy-Fi is, FastCoExist reports, a “giant circular tower” that will go up over the summer in Queens, New York, and be built out of “bricks biologically engineered to grow themselves from plant waste and fungal cells.”
via This tower is made out of self-growing mushroom bricks | Grist.
Take a peek inside the Mushroom Tiny House, a 64-square-foot home designed by Ecovative Design that uses mycelium — a type of fungi — to literally grow the structure from the inside out.
via Grow a ‘tiny house’ out of mushrooms – Video – Personal Finance.
Mycologist Philip Ross is seriously into mushrooms, but not as a food — instead, he uses fungi as a building material. Beneath the surface of the ground, fungi form a wide network of thin, rootlike fibers called mycelium. That part of the fungus isn’t particularly tasty, but Ross discovered that when dried, it can be used to form a super-strong, water-, mold- and fire-resistant building material. The dried mycelium can be grown and formed into just about any shape, and it has a remarkable consistency that makes it stronger, pound for pound, than concrete.
