Living Tex'Celium
Diseño sostenible con un compuesto textil de micelio
Living Tex'celium ofrece un sistema de materiales sostenibles creado mediante el cultivo de micelio en residuos agrícolas y de madera para formar compuestos reciclables. Incorpora tejidos de yute para superar los límites estructurales de los compuestos de micelio tradicionales. El sistema prevé módulos flexibles y transportables para su fabricación in situ guiada digitalmente. El micelio crece y se bio-suelda, conservando la forma y formando conexiones fuertes después del curado. Un puente prototipo resistió 4,5 veces su peso, lo que demuestra su capacidad de carga. Las unidades Tex'celium son totalmente reciclables en 7 días, lo que favorece una construcción respetuosa con el medio ambiente.
Empresa/Institución
University of Stuttgart
Participants are Students of M.Sc ITECH program. The Integrative Technologies & Architectural Design Research M.Sc. Program (ITECH) at Uni Stuttgart is an interdisciplinary, research-oriented, experiment-based program shaped around contemporary aspects of the built environment and practice. The goal of the ITECH program is to prepare a new generation of students from different disciplines for the continuing advancement of technological and computational processes in development of the built environment through merging the fields of architecture, engineering, construction and natural sciences.
País
Alemania
Designer(s)
Kalaivanan Amudhan, Mahdi Jafari & Ali Zolfagari
The designers, architects from India, Afghanistan and Iran, passionate about sustainable construction, spent a year researching mycelium to explore its unique advantages over traditional materials in architecture. They carried out extensive experiments with substrate combinations, mechanical testing, and prototyping to overcome the material's limitations. By leveraging computational design workflows, they created a fully sustainable and recyclable building system tailored for architectural applications. This project was a part of their master's thesis at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.