Brick Trick: 3D-Printed Architectural 'Prosthetics' Show False Lego Innards | Wired Design. The 3D-printed “graffiti,” before being placed in site. 3D printers are changing the world, for good and ill. Doctors can now 3D-print replacement bones perfectly customized to their patient’s anatomy while terrorists could potentially print untraceable automatic weapons. In between these extremes are projects like 3D-printed graffiti by artist Greg Petchkovsky. Some might consider it a next-gen nuisance, while others see it as the evolution of an art form. Petchkovsky’s graffiti is minimal and almost purposefully invisible. He finds architectural details that have suffered damage and designs 3D-printed “prosthetics” that attempt to fix them — but with a surprise twist. A broken corner of a sandstone staircase reveals a Lego skeleton; meanwhile, pitted clay bricks appear to melt, an homage to old-school “drip” style tags.
Lego graffiti in situ. He creates his pieces by taking multiple photographs of the object he plans to embellish. Photos courtesy of Greg Petchkovsky. National Mushroom Associations.
Áfram. Oyster Mushrooms. Pin by Ariane Laxo on Building Materials. Possibly the Most Experimental Young Architects Program Building Material, Ever. A rendering of an aerial view of the The Living's Hy-Fi, the winning design of the 2014 Young Architects Program Credit: Courtesy The Living The architecture webosphere is abuzz about David Benjamin, co-founder of New York-based The Living, and his winning proposal for MoMA's 2014 PS1 Young Architects Program. I have chronicled the provocative activities of The Living since my first Transmaterial book (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006), and the firm's experiments with gill-like breathing windows, micro-archipelagos of water-testing devices, and collective sensory networks for buildings have broadened our notions of what building products and architectural practice can be.
As Joseph Giovannini reported last week in ARCHITECT, Benjamin's Hy-Fi installation at MoMA PS1 will be a brick tower that frames three circular oculi at the top, providing both shade and cooling breezes for summer visitors via stack-effect ventilation. Credit: The Living Credit: The LivingReflective brick. Forsíða. Ostrusveppir. Ostrusveppur (l. Pleurotus Ostreatus) Sveppurinn tekur nafn sitt af útlitinu sem minnir á ostruskeljar. Þeir hafa milt en einkennandi bragð og oft má finna af þeim mildan ilm sem helst minnir á anís. Til eru margar tegundir ostrusveppa og geta þeir verið mjög litskrúðugir, svo sem brúnir, bleikir, gulir, bláir og gráir. Ostrusveppir eru fíngerðir og því viðkvæmir fyrir hnjaski. Sveppir eins og grænmeti eru hollir þar sem þeir innihalda mikið af næringarefnum i hlutfalli við hitaeiningar og eru trefja- og próteinríkir. Margar rannsóknir hafa verið gerðar á ostruveppnum sem uppspretta nauðsynlegra næringarefna og annarra efna sem talin eru hafa góð áhrif á heilsu okkar.
Næringargildi í 100 gr. af ostrusveppum er eftirfarandi[5]: Orka [kcal]33,3Kolvetni [gr]6,1Prótín [gr]3,3Fita [gr]0,4Trefjar [gr]2,3Natríum [mg]17,9Kalíum [mg]420,2Ríbóflavín (B2) [mg]0,4Níasín (B3) [mg]5,0B5 vítamín [mg]1,3Fólat/fólinsýra [µg]38,1Kopar [mg]0,2 1 Dubost, N.J., et al. (2006). 2 Duyff, R. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Nature's Internet: The Vast, Intelligent Network Beneath Our Feet.
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Myceliumbox, growkit - Growing mushrooms made EZ and Magic. Myceliumbox, growkit - Growing mushrooms made EZ and Magic. Ganoderma Technologically Computerized Greenhouse Farm. Áfram. Mycelium hönnun. Mycelium Chair by Eric Klarenbeek is 3D-printed with living fungus. Dutch Design Week 2013: designer Eric Klarenbeek has 3D-printed a chair using living fungus, which then grows inside the structure to give it strength (+ slideshow) The chair is the result of a collaboration between Klarenbeek and scientists at the University of Wageningen to develop a new way of printing with living organisms. "Our main purpose was to bring together the machine and nature to create a new material that could be used to make any product," Klarenbeek told Dezeen.
The result is a new material that, Klarenbeek believes, could be used to make almost anything in future. "It could be a table, a whole interior or even a house," he said. "We could build a house with it. " Presented at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this weekend, the Mycelium Chair was printed using a mixture of water, powdered straw and mycelium, which is the thread-like part of a fungus that lives underground. "When you dry it out you have the straw kind of glued together by the mushroom," Klarenbeek said.
Phil Ross | The Biotechnique of Phil Ross. Phil Ross | The Biotechnique of Phil Ross. Day 1 - The Start of a Journey: Brainstorming. Foraging for Wild, Natural, Organic Food: Real Art Ways Intimate Science Exhibition: Phil Ross and Mushroom Bricks. On March 16, we attended an Intimate Science Get Together at Real Art Ways in Hartford, featuring Phil Ross and our own myco-friend, Connie Borodenko. It was advertised as "A conversation on fungus as artistic medium and sustainable architectural material", and featured physical examples of the building bricks fashioned by Mr. Ross from the mycelium of reishi mushrooms, Ganoderma lucidum. Connie was the opening speaker, talking about her family history of mushroom hunting and her own experiences with Connecticut Valley Mycological Society. She also helped answer questions from the audience about nutritional value and medicinal value of some of the fungi we find here in Connecticut.
Philip Ross talked about his fabrication process with the mycelium of the medicinal reishi, and explained its connection to his previous background of working with critically ill AIDS patients in the 1980's. Mr. The Future is Fungal: Interview with Phil Ross. Phil Ross wants to grow buildings and furniture from mushrooms Phil Ross (San Francisco) works in the realm of “biotechniques.” He makes sculptural and architectural works from plants and fungi, and videos about live cultures. As the founder and director of CRITTER – a salon centered-around DIY biology events, he has organized events like “Enormous Microscopic Evening” at the Hammer Museum (2010).
His multi-decade research into mushrooms has led to his “mycotecture” series, an experiment in using reishi mushrooms as a sustainable construction material (International Patent Pending). Ross is presently designing and prototyping fungal furniture. His work is part of the touring exhibition, “Intimate Science,” which I curated for Carnegie Mellon’s Miller Gallery, and opens next at Real Art Ways in Hartford Connecticut, November 3, 2012.
PHIL: Yes, but I’d go back a little bit further. ANDREA: Where did you work as a chef? PHIL: Yeah. Image courtesy Phil Ross ANDREA: Similar to guarded recipes? Phil Ross | The Biotechnique of Phil Ross. Patent US5074959 - Complex of fibers and fungi and a process for preparation thereof - Google Patents. 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a novel complex of fibrous materials and fungi obtained by allowing fungi to grow in a medium containing fibrous materials thereby bonding the fungi to the fibrous materials to the fungi. The complex of fibrous material with fungi is utilized as building materials such as fiberboards, heat insulating materials, and the like; sound materials such as acoustic diaphragms, speaker cones, and the like; base materials for fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP); packing materials such as packages for floppy diskets, envelopes and the like; paper; and the like.
As a result of employing the present process for preparing the complex, synthetic fibers containing the complex can be formed which exhibit a comfortable feeling. The present process is thus applicable to the fields of fibers and apparel. 2. In order to prepare paper from pulp manufactured from wood, a beating step is necessary during the manufacturing process. Growing Mycotecture | Phil Ross. A catenary arch is formed from the shape of a suspended length of chain turned upside down. Mushrooms are grown by packing sawdust into airtight bags, then steam cooking the packed bags for several hours. After these pasteurized wood chips have cooled down small pieces of mushroom tissue are introduced into the bag, which eagerly devours the neutralized wood. As the fungus digests and transforms the contents of the bag it solidifies into a mass of interlocking cells, slowly becoming denser and taking form. Like plaster or cement, mushrooms can be cast into almost any shape. The fungus initially grows inside of plastic bags.
The six foot long arch required over 400 bricks. The fungus takes two to four weeks to eat the sawdust and solidify into what looks like a decrepit cake. The tops of the bags are cut off and the fungus is left to grow in a high humidity environment for a week. I was praying that the land-lord never opened the door to my studio. Mycotectural Alpha | MycoRant. In what looks like a potential rival to EcoCradle, Mycotectural Alpha is a construction material made of dense mycelium. Time magazine mentions it in the article Industrial-Strength Fungus by Adam Fischer: Mycelium doesn’t taste very good, but once it’s dried, it has some remarkable properties.
It’s nontoxic, fireproof and mold- and water-resistant, and it traps more heat than fiberglass insulation. It’s also stronger, pound for pound, than concrete. In December, Ross completed what is believed to be the first structure made entirely of mushroom. This new entry in to the mycostructural realm is the brainchild of Philip Ross “…artist, an inventor and a seriously obsessed amateur mycologist.”
Fungally derived substances like Mycotectural Alpha and EcoCradle hold promise as ecologically friendly alternatives to less (or non) biodegradable structural materials. Ross has a photo set on Flickr showing his fungus bricks in production. Building Mycotecture | Phil Ross. The bricks at the museum in Germany. The support structure held the bricks in place as they were being assembled. Though the bricks could be cut with wood tools it took many masonry skills to create the tea house.
Mushrooms digest cellulose and transform it into chitin, the same material that insect shells are made from. The bricks have the feel of a composite material with a core of spongy cross grained pulp that becomes progressively denser towards its outer skin. The skin itself is incredibly hard, shatter resistant, and can handle enormous amounts of compression. Shaping and cutting the bricks destroyed our files, rasps and saws.
3D-Printed Mycelium Chair Sprouts Living Mushrooms! Dutch designer Eric Klarenbeek’s new Mycelium Chair is an amazing mushroom-sprouting seat that fuses organic materials with modern 3D printing technology. Working with the University of Aachen, Klarenbeek developed a way to 3D print with living cells instead of plastic or metal. The sculptural fungus chair is sowed with mushroom spores that flourish over time, creating a new symbol of organic technology. Klarenbeek’s project explores what happens when you combine modern 3D printing technology with the biological building blocks of fungi. In order to create a pliable material, the designer extracted mycelium from fungus and used the thread-like material as a base.
They then mixed the mycelium with a compound of organic straw and water, creating a substance that could be fed into a 3D printer. The new substance was then printed into a sculptural chair inspired by the natural growth of fungus and organic forms in nature. . + Eric Klarenbeek Via PSFK. Philip Ross crafts furniture from mycelium. The house is filled with the earthy smell of mushrooms cooking. It's not a welcome-to-winter soup simmering or a ragout thickening; I'm baking a little mushroom footstool in the oven. That's not all that's baking in that house, you may be thinking. The footstool is the product of a furniture-making class taught by Philip Ross at the Workshop Residence in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood midway through the fall. To call it a mushroom footstool is technically accurate, but slightly misleading - it comes out of the oven looking like weathered concrete and feels slightly spongy, like cork.
Only the pungent smell gives away the footstool's nature. Mushroom experts like Ross - they're known as mycologists - call what we buy in the grocery the "fruit" that grows atop mycelium, the often vast networks built by these fungal entities under the ground, or inside a host tree. It's this generally hidden network that Ross tends to use, at least when he has his furniture-maker hat on. Fungi lingo. Stimulation of Mycelial Growth of Endothia parasitica by Heavy Metals. Methanol. Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH).
Methanol acquired the name "wood alcohol" because it was once produced chiefly as a byproduct of the destructive distillation of wood. Modern methanol is produced in a catalytic industrial process directly from carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen. Methanol is produced naturally in the anaerobic metabolism of many varieties of bacteria, and is commonly present in small amounts in the environment.
As a result, there is a small fraction of methanol vapor in the atmosphere. Over the course of several days, atmospheric methanol is oxidized with the help of sunlight to carbon dioxide and water. Methanol burns in oxygen including open air, forming carbon dioxide and water: History[edit] In their embalming process, the ancient Egyptians used a mixture of substances, including methanol, which they obtained from the pyrolysis of wood. JONAS EDVARD. Jonas Edvard’s Biodegradable Myx Lamp Grows Edible Oyster Mushrooms Jonas Edvard Myx Mushroom Lamp - Gallery Page 1.
Green Furniture Sweden Finalists 2014 - Green Furniture Sweden. With more than twice as much participants in the event this year, Green Furniture Award got as good and as creative proposals as ever! The finalists and their projects have been presented on stage at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. The price ceremony where the winners will be announced is 11 April at 7pm in the Cappellini Showroom in Milan, during the Milano Design Week 2014.
Join the event on Facebook! High resolution images of the contributions and the competitiors can be downloaded here First Prize: ‘Hardened Leather Chair’, app 11 000 Euro Hardened Leather Chair is made with an old technique for hardening leather in a 100% natural way. The technique has been used for corsets and armours long before there were manmade chemicals, and here serves as self-supported upholstery. Nikolaj Steenfatt Furniture- and product designer living and working in Denmark Second Price: ‘Sleep Tight’ cradle, app 4400 Euro (see also note made 10 April 2014) Nick was born in Scotland in 1986. Mycena News Past Issues.
Agaricus bisporus. 1471.full. Carbohydrate Metabolism in Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Sing.: Changes in Soluble Carbohydrates during Growth of Mycelium and Sporophore. Sk%C3%BDrsla-sveppir. Greinasafn: Landbúnaður á Íslandi. InngangurÍ bókina Ísland, atvinnuhættir og menning 1990 ritar Gunnar Guðbjartsson frá Hjarðarfelli yfirgripsmikla grein um landbúnað á Íslandi. Grein Gunnars er bæði yfirgripsmikil og ítarleg og lýsir bæði sögu landbúnaðarins frá fyrri tímum, framþróun hans á 20. öldinni og stöðu þegar komið var undir lok hennar.
Gunnar fjallar m.a. um sveitabyggðina og þróun fólksfjölda í sveitum. Þá greinir hann frá búnaðarmenntun og þróun rannsókna. Nokkuð ítarlega er fjallað um framkvæmdir, ræktun og byggingar, sömuleiðis um búfjárhald og stærð bústofns á hverjum tíma. Framleiðslu búsafurða er lýst og hvernig hún hefur þróast, einnig er rakin þróun afurðasölu og fjallað um afurðastöðvar. Í þeirri grein sem hér fer á eftir er leitast við að gefa mynd af íslenskum landbúnaði með nokkuð öðrum hætti. Mikilvægi matarLandbúnaður er allra atvinnuvega mikilvægastur. Landkostir á ÍslandiSkilyrði til landbúnaðar ráðast af mörgum þáttum. Ræktunarmörk og nytjaland. Endurræktun túna. Agaricus bisporus. Mushroom Vaults : Cultivation Tips. Return of the Fungi. Af_mushroom.
Áfram. Mushroom Tiny House: The part-grown portable home - Images. Mushroom Materials | Ecovative Design. In a Manufacturing First, Innovative Material is Grown by Fungi. The Supermaterial That Could Make Plastic Obsolete Is... Mushrooms? Building with Mushrooms - Gavin McIntyre, Ecovative Design. GE FOCUS FORWARD - Short Films, Big Ideas. Mycelial Entanglements. Chapter 2 – Building Fundamentals | The Nauhaus Idea Repository. Mycelium for Professionals - Mycelia BVBA. Good Taste: For the Love of Fungi – The Contemporary Austin. Mushroom Materials | Adream 2012. Bændur. New Plastic ‘Zeoform’ Turns Hemp Into Almost Anything.
The British Mycological Society :: Outdoor activity 3: Making a mycelium. Search. Mushroom Hybrid technique. Exhibition: “Mushrooms Paradise” at Mediamatic Amsterdam. SYP+Essay. BVBA. The British Mycological Society :: Outdoor activity 2:What is a mushroom.