This project examines how we can design bio-receptive structures from jute and hemp with and for mycelium. A material-driven design approach is applied by systematically changing variables such as humidity, spacing, and interaction. The result are different material potentials that mycelium offers, like flexibility, the binding ability to lock in a weave, and regrowth of dried samples and this introduces temporality in the rhythm of drying, interaction and growing.
Type of project: Design project
Duration: Semester, 5 months
Work type: Group work
Recognition: Exhibited in the Green Room at TU/e
Methods used: Material Driven Design, Bio-receptivity, More-than-human Design, Growing materials with mycelium
Calculating humidity percentage for samples
Interacting with alive and dried samples
Bending the sample before drying formed cracks and broke the skin.
Touching the mycelium skin before drying made the skin “roll up”.
Process to grow mycelium on woven samples
Final samples: box shape, weaves with different spacing and cylinder shape