It’s time once again for some weird waste! In today’s installment, we’ll look at some experimental ways where buildings are grown instead of built, providing lower impact ways to create large structures.
Functional fungus grows house in days
Houses made from mushrooms seem like something straight out of a fairy tale. But the Museum of Modern Art’s “Hy-Fi” brings this to reality, containing bricks grown from farm waste and fungus. The bricks can be grown in five days, and are compostable.
The structure is built to draw breezes into the shaded interior, and was designed as a part of MoMA’s Young Architect’s Program. The program features an annual competition, and winners often incorporate reused or sustainable materials and features.
London skyscraper to be built from recycled material
The world’s first “organic” skyscraper may soon find a home in London, England. The building is designed to take paper and glass waste produced by the building’s occupants, and turn them into the panels which will make up the exterior of the building. It is estimated that enough material will be discarded by the residents that the building should be completed within a year of occupation.
The structure will be home to a recycling facility, which will sort and process the material gathered in the upper floors. Offices, conference rooms, gyms, and restaurants will be housed in the building, and wind turbines will provide power.
This post is part of the “Reedcycler’s Believe it or Not” blog series, which showcases weird waste-related stories. Tune in on Mondays each week for more.
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