Mycelium

Pulp Faction

Pulp Faction is a transdisciplinary project at the intersection of microbiology, digital fabrication and architecture that provides an alternative to extractive material sourcing. These new material systems are produced through biofabrication and digital computation.

Pulp Faction developed a method for 3D printing a mycelium composite material for architectural use. The project employs the transformative power of biology to repurpose abundant by-products of plant fibres into a new class of performative materials for architecture. These are self-supporting, are good thermal and acoustic insulators and are simultaneously hydrophobic and hygroscopic.

Such biomaterials represent alternative construction materials that are biodegradable and do not rely on the extraction of finite resources or energy-intensive production. Spanning a range of disciplines, Pulp Faction is concerned with the substrate material composition, its integration with living fungus, the process for 3D printing and ultimately how it is grown into architectural components. The process has been demonstrated through a 2 meters high column: Protomycokion.

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