Hi there, What about the durability of the material? Will it decompose when wet due to rain? or have you used a coat that will keep the integrity of the material?
Hi Ginger Rivadeneira, we don't yet know how the material reacts to rain in the long term, we see it as an experiment! A couple years ago it's been outside for months already, that went well:)
Hope to see more of this materials, floating in the ocean and rivers, instead of forever lasting plastics;) at least those will turn into a sediments in no time;)
Homes constructed with wood framing, wood flooring, and wood exterior siding are sequestering a lot of carbon. The problem is homes constructed with energy intensive man-made materials such as bricks, concrete blocks, and manufactured stone do not. We still need to continue farming trees. It's one of the best methods we have to sequester carbon. Admittedly we are not growing enough trees. The majority of trees we are growing are being harvested prematurely due to high demand. Or we've selected fast growing trees to maximize profits rather than maximize carbon sequestration. Additionally we are burning too much wood for fuel. As well as burning crop waste rather than finding ways to utilize all crop waste. Burning of crop waste is one of the causes of destructive wildfires every year. Utilizing existing crop waste mixed with mushroom spores to create a natural material which is a harmless substitute for VOC rich laminated wood products, supplements harvested wood to slow deforestation, provides a compostable soil enriching plastic replacement, and substitutes many other man-made products like insulation is necessary as we can not grow enough trees to stop worldwide deforestation. This emerging science is extremely promising and exciting. Imagine the impact this would have across the world if farmers saw their crop waste as a valuable material. They would immediately stop burning it. Cheers!
Myotecture. What a beautiful project! I wonder what the insulative properties and response to heat are. I've been thinking of designing beautiful coffins - but you can make so many things... Warm regards Jennie
if you want it to stop you'd bake it, like you would a clay, will make it inert. at least that's how its done for smaller objects. I'm sure there's a similar processes for larger items. curious if there's any benefits or downsides to letting it continue growing though. Also if the environment isn't right for growth it will stop on its own i imagine
Have you ever seen indigenous woven houses? I'm imagining that adding hay and the mycellia onto the woven frames could accomplish grand structures with more durability than mud huts. 🧐
@@jonadams4038 Things are different in the forest where you can sometimes find whole mushroom colonies. The rest of them are never found in such large concentrations in just one place
There is one patent covering all self bearing mycellium grown through materials. So it's basically useless. A teaser, you are not allowed to use. Clickbait.
You can't store CO2 unless you bury it for thousands of years. Anything you build with mycelium for example (or wood or whatever) will within 50 or 100 years will break down, decay or burn and release the carbon. That is no help to the atmosphere if it is only a small amount of time on the atmospheric C02 half-life scale.
I love bio architecture, as i'm myself developping my own, but why to not ate least "evocate" the existence of plenty of "bio material houses" since human and animal exists... For instance, raw eath houses, cowdung houses in India and Morroco, watertail floating houses in Iraq, or more recently cheap and efficient loadbearing strawbale houses .. It would sound less pretentious and wasp..
I am so happy that such people exist, let's all grow our homes!😄
Its probably no coincidence why the idea of living in a house made of fungus was presented by the dutch. Well done, Engineer-Smurf.
What abouut air contamination through high spore contamination?
Beautiful! Mushrooms for everyone!
Hi there, What about the durability of the material? Will it decompose when wet due to rain? or have you used a coat that will keep the integrity of the material?
Hi Ginger Rivadeneira, we don't yet know how the material reacts to rain in the long term, we see it as an experiment! A couple years ago it's been outside for months already, that went well:)
Amazing. Hope I can join these new technologies!
This is. Amazing
It's only today I perceived these possibilities... INSPIRING
I've been talking about this shit since the first time I played grandia
Hope to see more of this materials, floating in the ocean and rivers, instead of forever lasting plastics;) at least those will turn into a sediments in no time;)
Mooi initiatief.
most excellent!!
Homes constructed with wood framing, wood flooring, and wood exterior siding are sequestering a lot of carbon. The problem is homes constructed with energy intensive man-made materials such as bricks, concrete blocks, and manufactured stone do not. We still need to continue farming trees. It's one of the best methods we have to sequester carbon. Admittedly we are not growing enough trees. The majority of trees we are growing are being harvested prematurely due to high demand. Or we've selected fast growing trees to maximize profits rather than maximize carbon sequestration. Additionally we are burning too much wood for fuel. As well as burning crop waste rather than finding ways to utilize all crop waste. Burning of crop waste is one of the causes of destructive wildfires every year.
Utilizing existing crop waste mixed with mushroom spores to create a natural material which is a harmless substitute for VOC rich laminated wood products, supplements harvested wood to slow deforestation, provides a compostable soil enriching plastic replacement, and substitutes many other man-made products like insulation is necessary as we can not grow enough trees to stop worldwide deforestation.
This emerging science is extremely promising and exciting. Imagine the impact this would have across the world if farmers saw their crop waste as a valuable material. They would immediately stop burning it.
Cheers!
En als we dan zover zijn dat er bijna geen uitstoot meer is. Heb je dan een tegenovergestelde werking?
Good question, we can cross that bridge when we reach there. If we do reach there...
Myotecture. What a beautiful project! I wonder what the insulative properties and response to heat are. I've been thinking of designing beautiful coffins - but you can make so many things...
Warm regards
Jennie
How do you make it stop growing?
if you want it to stop you'd bake it, like you would a clay, will make it inert. at least that's how its done for smaller objects. I'm sure there's a similar processes for larger items. curious if there's any benefits or downsides to letting it continue growing though. Also if the environment isn't right for growth it will stop on its own i imagine
@@ConfusedSoup Thanks for explaining!
@@RNCHFND np! i think this stuff is really interesting
Brazilian Company has been making packaging out of mycillium to replace polystyrene fo over a decade.
I want to live in this type of home
just let the moisture stay in your apartmentd od not air it for few weeks or months and "swamp" will soon grow on a walls! ha! ha!
"Crumble cake tech" inside of a wall form might be more efficient and structural than stacking bricks of mycilium.
They use any mycelium?
Have you ever seen indigenous woven houses? I'm imagining that adding hay and the mycellia onto the woven frames could accomplish grand structures with more durability than mud huts. 🧐
ooh_ .. hi there.. who is the man who will ansver in my question.. sorry my bad english..
if it continues to grow until it becomes a complete structure, how do you stop the growth process?
The panels are heated at around 100 celsius. This neutralises the mycelium and renders it inert.
Heated or dried…
Well somebody get them in contact with the wasp home
Even though this is very innovative it would probably lead to an allergic breakout!
But mushrooms are already all around us
@@jonadams4038 Things are different in the forest where you can sometimes find whole mushroom colonies. The rest of them are never found in such large concentrations in just one place
@@jonadams4038 cars are also around us and nobody is hurt but when some collide with you ...!
These are not fruiting mushrooms. It's only when there's fruit that it will release spores. This is just mycelium.
Sucks to suck
Mycelium makes CO2 when growing so not sure what they mean it stores it
I think they mean in comparison to concrete
There is one patent covering all self bearing mycellium grown through materials.
So it's basically useless. A teaser, you are not allowed to use. Clickbait.
You can't store CO2 unless you bury it for thousands of years. Anything you build with mycelium for example (or wood or whatever) will within 50 or 100 years will break down, decay or burn and release the carbon. That is no help to the atmosphere if it is only a small amount of time on the atmospheric C02 half-life scale.
I love bio architecture, as i'm myself developping my own, but why to not ate least "evocate" the existence of plenty of "bio material houses" since human and animal exists... For instance, raw eath houses, cowdung houses in India and Morroco, watertail floating houses in Iraq, or more recently cheap and efficient loadbearing strawbale houses .. It would sound less pretentious and wasp..
Mycelium not mushroom roots they should know better
giant tempe
But you still used wood for the frame…. 😂😂🤡🤡
Which is biobaised...😂😂🤡🤡
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