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Graduation Fascination

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Graduation concept

Living Architecture

Context

In order to maintain a healthy living environment for everyone and everything on the planet we need to make radical change in our behaviour. Therefor we should also change the way we look at architecture and the way we produce architecture. This change is already ongoing and many people are coming up with different ideas. It is there where things are happening that sparkle my fascination.

The phenomenon that truly fascinates me is the usage of living materials as the main building material for architecture. The ideal part of using these living materials is that they can be regrown over and over again and fit perfectly fine within the idea of circularity of building materials. Within mind that the fungi should also be able to become a zero waste building.

Besides those aspects living materials can be used to produce buildings which have a carbon neutral or negative footprint. With these material properties we can counteract the challenges of climate change and mineral depletion. But we can only do such things when the new materials show that the can replace their predecessors for the better. That’s why I want to investigate fungi as a feasible building material and grow architecture out of it.