Biobuilding material for sustainable architecture

Text: Bálint Botzheim

The underground part of the fungus, the mycelium, is made up of a multitude of fungal filaments. A characteristic of mushroom growth is that the richer the medium in which it grows, the more densely the fungal filaments interweave. Mushrooms have many good properties as a building material, but they are not yet widely used. This paper reviews projects using mycelium as a building material around the world from the 2010s to the present.