Investigating a Design and Construction Approach for Fungal Architectures

Phil Ayres; Adrien Rigobello; Ji You-Wen; Claudia Colmo; Jack Young; Karl-Johan Sørensen; Christoph Gengnagel; Olivier Baverel; Giovanni Betti; Mariana Popescu; Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen; Jan Wurm

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_45

Investigating a Design and Construction Approach for Fungal Architectures

Phil Ayres, Adrien Rigobello, Ji You-Wen, Claudia Colmo, Jack Young, Karl-Johan Sørensen, Christoph Gengnagel (Editor), Olivier Baverel (Editor), Giovanni Betti (Editor), Mariana Popescu (Editor), Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (Editor), Jan Wurm (Editor)

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Abstract

The design research presented in this paper grounds itself in a tradition of seeking new architectural form from the affordances and proclivities of new materials. We report on the developmental stages of a construction concept that involves the growing of mycelium-based composites within stay-in-place scaffolds produced using Kagome weaving techniques. We demonstrate how speculative design is used to generate hypotheses - testable design statements - for directing empirical investigation, and how results drive the progression of the design inquiry and its associated digital design tools. Our core contribution is to expose new design pathways that operate reciprocally between material, tectonic and spatial exploration. We argue that such reciprocity is a prerequisite for supporting the invention of new architectural forms, vocabularies and systems.

Original language	English
Publication date	2022
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_45
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Design Modelling Symposium 2022: Towards Radical Regeneration - UDK Berlin, Berlin, Germany Duration: 26 Sept 2022 → 28 Sept 2022 https://design-modelling-symposium.de/

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Conference	Design Modelling Symposium 2022
Location	UDK Berlin
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	26/09/2022 → 28/09/2022
Internet address	https://design-modelling-symposium.de/

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1 Ph.D. thesis

On Mycoboscus: Design Strategies & Epistemology of a Novel Sustainable Craft
Rigobello, A., 11 Dec 2023, Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation. 468 p.
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FUNGAR: Fungal Architectures
Ayres, P. (PI), Rigobello, A. (Project Participant) & Buchwald, E. F. (Project Participant)
01/12/2019 → 31/05/2023
Project: Research

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Ayres, P., Rigobello, A., You-Wen, J., Colmo, C., Young, J., Sørensen, K.-J., Gengnagel, C. (Ed.), Baverel, O. (Ed.), Betti, G. (Ed.), Popescu, M. (Ed.), Thomsen, M. R. (Ed.), & Wurm, J. (Ed.) (2022). Investigating a Design and Construction Approach for Fungal Architectures. 571-583. Paper presented at Design Modelling Symposium 2022, Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_45

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