Scientists Are Growing Sustainable Buildings From Fungi Now
to animal-derived leather. The idea of making sustainable concrete-type blocks from fungi has also been percolating for several years.
would incorporate native soil, aka regolith, from the planet’s surface to grow homemade building blocks. by offering a flexible, oxygen-permeable surface, but that leads to other problems. It is difficult to make a flexible textile keep a desired shape while the mycelium fills it. Flexibility also makes a textile mold difficult to pack.
The team tested their method on tubes knitted from merino wool and compared the results with other mycelium composite approaches. They found that their samples outperformed other composites on stress tests, and shrank less upon drying. That’s important, as shrinkage could impact the potential for mass production.
At 1.8 meters high and 2 meters in diameter, BioKnit is a relatively small structure, but it illustrates some important features of mycocrete.has sufficient compressive strength to support a free-standing, slender vault,” the University of Newcastle explains.
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