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Building with Mushrooms

Building with Mushrooms

Building with Mushrooms

Building with Mushrooms Along with our research on wool and cardboard insulation we turn towards investigating the constructional potential of living organisms, in the frame of our research on sustainable insulation. Our aim is to explore natural solutions that could replace conventional materials while being equally efficient, more ecologically responsible and cost competitive. In our latest research we have been focusing on the insulation properties of fungal mycelium and developing different kinds of prototypes to be tested and compared. The major role of fungi in nature is to act as a decomposer. They grow on dead organic matter, disassembling and...

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