MycoShell at BuildFest
INSTALLATION - SUMMER 2024
MycoShell is an installation that exhibits the potential of biological self-growing and adaptive building materials toward a collaborative future of the digital and the analog. MycoShell is constructed of structural mycelium-bound composite panels that have been grown from a local fungal strain of the Ganoderma family on regional agricultural byproducts of corn and hemp. The result is a biobased, carbon-negative, and fully circular building component with structural capacities. MycoShell engages these mycelium-bound panels to form a compression-optimized vault built from individual catenary arches.
Andrew Boghossian (B.Arch. '23; Research Associate, Circular Construction Lab, Cornell AAP)
Brenda Bai (M.Arch. '24)
Lauren Franco (B.Arch. '25)
Natasha Becker (B.Arch. '26)
Matthew Glaysher (Shop Technician, Material Practice Facilities, Cornell AAP)
Marina Rosolem (M.S. DT '25)
Jeeya Savani (M.S. AAD '24)
MycoShell BuildFest Assembly Team:
Idil Derman (B.Arch. '25)
Eavan Flanagan (M.Arch. '26)
Edozie Onumonu (M.Arch. '26)
Jasper Owen (B.Arch. '26)
MycoBuilt Research Project:
Rebecca J. Nelson, Director, Nelson Lab, Cornell CALS
Kathie Hodge, Director, Hodge Lab, Cornell CALS
Lori Huberman, Director, Huberman Lab, Cornell CALS
Margaret W. Frey, Director, Frey Lab, Cornell CHE
Anil Netravali, Director, Netravali Lab, Cornell CHE
Ace Repka, Nelson Lab, Cornell CALS
J. Forest Meekins, Nelson Lab, Cornell CALS
Celeste Chhibber (B.S. '26)
Abbie Elison (B.S. '25)
Monty Hamm (B.A. '24)
Farzana Hossain (B.Arch. '23)
Eliot Lee (B.S. '26)
Sadeen Musa (B.S. '25)
Nick Paciorek (B.S. '23)
Ivania Rivera (M.S. MDC '24)
Esha Shakthy (B.S. '25)
Kimberly Valadez (B.A. '24)
Jae Geun Yoo (M.S. AAD '23)
Special Thanks:
Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
Department of Architecture
Department of Human Centered Design