Is this the future? Amazing zero-waste buildings, grown from mushrooms
A student from Brunel University London has recently found a way of growing living structures which can later be used into buildings, Inhabitat.com reports.
Brunel University student Aleksi Vesaluoma worked alongside architecture firm Astudio to create Grown Structures, as a waste-free alternative to conventional building materials.
The student used mycelium in order to accomplish this, as he noticed that when mycelium growns on organic materials, it binds the matter together, so he mixed oyster mushroom mycelium with cardboard and poured it into tube-shaped cotton bandages.
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The tubes were then placed inside a ventilated greenhouse for four weeks so as to grown and strengthen, a process that turns organic waste into nutrients for the growth of the mycelium. Everything is completely waste-free, since the structure is 100% biodegradable.
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