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What if buildings were made to degrade?
Some buildings are made to degrade. With population sizes changing so fast and uses for interior spaces shifting over time, some people have opted to make structures that can decompose when they’re no longer needed. Bricks for these buildings are grown rather than manufactured...
Using mycelium as a building material has been gaining popularity, investment and attention in recent years. Architects are using them to build multi-story structures. Scientists are researching growth and decay rates. They're becoming popular in sustainable packaging. Injecting spores into organic material can start the growth process, creating building materials that can be shredded when they're no longer needed and regenerate soils in circular ways.
Research informing this future
Using mycellium as a building material has been gaining popularity, investment and attention in recent years. Architects are using them to build multi-story structures. Scientists are researching growth and decay rates. They're becoming popular in sustainable packaging. Injecting spores into organic material can start the growth process, creating building materials that can be shredded when they're no longer needed and regenerate soils in circular ways.
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Challenges and opportunities in scaling up use of mycelium based materials
Resources on healthy buildings
What you do think? What if you had these in your neighborhood? Would you want them? Would you not? Why?
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