ABSTRACT
This paper takes a critical approach to and presents advancements in design and fabrication techniques of fungi-based materials (myco-materials) used for large scale structural design applications, which have previously lacked in diversity, beyond brick/block, monolithic casting, or 3D printing-based approaches. Innovation with myco-materials is possible, but only through radical tactics that leverage its material properties. A prototype structure was grown and is described below. The prototype challenges previous assumptions about the formal and structural capacities of myco-materials and highlight that their inherent flexibility before desiccation make it possible to form complex shapes only by hanging them.
