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The Myco-Knit CompoSITe project made it onto the Dezeen Awards 2022 Sustainability longlist!
Congratulations to Ahmet and Romy, whose project Myco-Knit CompoSITe made it to the longlist for the Dezeen Design Award 2022 in the Sustainable Design Category.
From over 5,400 entries from 90 countries to Dezeen Awards this year, the project is one of over 75 projects that are in the running to win an award later this year in the Sustainability categories.
Myco-Knit CompoSITe prototype explores artistically a novel fabrication technique of building with digital tools and biology by using a 3D knitted, reinforcing fibre-based formwork for growing a chair with Mycelium, the root network of fungi. Mycelium growth binds the organic filling material together, resulting in a stiff self-supporting and light-loads carrying object when dried.
This novel bio fabrication approach widens the possibilities of building complex geometries with biomaterials in the future.
Read more about the project at the Dezeen Feature here.
Romy Kaiser and Ahmet Topcu are currently PhD Studendts at the Hub for Biotechnology and working both with Mycelium in their individual PhD Projects.
Both have been previously involved in the BioKnit-Research at the HBBE which made them able to transer their knowledge auqired with this fabrication method based on the BioKnit Prototype into a further collaborative project.
From over 5,400 entries from 90 countries to Dezeen Awards this year, the project is one of over 75 projects that are in the running to win an award later this year in the Sustainability categories.
Myco-Knit CompoSITe prototype explores artistically a novel fabrication technique of building with digital tools and biology by using a 3D knitted, reinforcing fibre-based formwork for growing a chair with Mycelium, the root network of fungi. Mycelium growth binds the organic filling material together, resulting in a stiff self-supporting and light-loads carrying object when dried.
This novel bio fabrication approach widens the possibilities of building complex geometries with biomaterials in the future.
Read more about the project at the Dezeen Feature here.
Romy Kaiser and Ahmet Topcu are currently PhD Studendts at the Hub for Biotechnology and working both with Mycelium in their individual PhD Projects.
Both have been previously involved in the BioKnit-Research at the HBBE which made them able to transer their knowledge auqired with this fabrication method based on the BioKnit Prototype into a further collaborative project.
