The Fungal Incubator is a hybrid modular piece of urban furniture and an instrument for mushroom cultivation. It provides an innovative solution to the rising consumption of cardboards by turning them into substrates that nourish mushrooms. Besides, it incorporates a catenary structure that serves as public seating furniture.
The Fungal Incubator allows mushrooms, specifically oyster mushrooms to grow on cardboards. It involves three main cultivation steps: inoculation, colonization and fruiting. The whole process will only take from two weeks to a month to see the edible mushrooms growing from the incubator. During the period of growth, the transparent display cabinet will show how the mycelium “eats” the cardboard substrates. Therefore, one of the biggest characteristics of the Fungal Incubator is that the display cabinet is always changing.
THE MUSH ROOMS
In this semester, a gigantic architecture will be designed based on the bio-material, concepts and techniques developed in brief 1. One of the railway station in the UK has been chosen to utilize the vacant space above the railway tracks.
I chose the Old Oak Common Depot as my project site. It is currently under construction in order to turn into an important station for the High Speed Train Development Scheme in the UK. The scheme is going to turn the industrial area into a modern super hub which is going to change the district vigorously.
In this project, an organic form of clusters of residential blocks are being introduced to the site. The structure is composed of timbers as well as SIPs that made up of mycelium. It aims to provide residential units with the concept of passivhaus.
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