A. Adamatzky, P. Ayres, G. Belotti, and H. Wosten. (2019)cite arxiv:1912.13262Comment: The position paper to be published in the International Journal of Unconventional Computing.
Abstract
As one of the primary consumers of environmental resource, the building
industry faces unprecedented challenges in needing to reduce the environmental
impact of current consumption practices. This applies to both the construction
of the built environment and resource consumption during its occupation and
use. Where incremental improvements to current practices can be realised, the
net benefits are often far outstripped by the burgeoning demands of rapidly
increasing population growth and urbanisation. Against the backdrop of this
grand societal challenge, it is necessary to explore approaches that envision a
paradigm shift in how material is sourced, processed and assembled to address
the magnitude of these challenges in a truly sustainable way, and which can
even provide added value. We propose to develop a structural substrate by using
live fungal mycelium, functionalise the substrate with nanoparticles and
polymers to make a mycelium-based electronics, implement sensorial fusion and
decision making in the fungal electronics and to growing monolithic buildings
from the functionalised fungal substrate. Fungal buildings will self-grow,
build, and repair themselves subject to substrate supplied, use natural
adaptation to the environment, sense all what human can sense.
%0 Generic
%1 adamatzky2019fungal
%A Adamatzky, Andrew
%A Ayres, Phil
%A Belotti, Gianluca
%A Wosten, Han
%D 2019
%K 2019 biology
%T Fungal architecture
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13262
%X As one of the primary consumers of environmental resource, the building
industry faces unprecedented challenges in needing to reduce the environmental
impact of current consumption practices. This applies to both the construction
of the built environment and resource consumption during its occupation and
use. Where incremental improvements to current practices can be realised, the
net benefits are often far outstripped by the burgeoning demands of rapidly
increasing population growth and urbanisation. Against the backdrop of this
grand societal challenge, it is necessary to explore approaches that envision a
paradigm shift in how material is sourced, processed and assembled to address
the magnitude of these challenges in a truly sustainable way, and which can
even provide added value. We propose to develop a structural substrate by using
live fungal mycelium, functionalise the substrate with nanoparticles and
polymers to make a mycelium-based electronics, implement sensorial fusion and
decision making in the fungal electronics and to growing monolithic buildings
from the functionalised fungal substrate. Fungal buildings will self-grow,
build, and repair themselves subject to substrate supplied, use natural
adaptation to the environment, sense all what human can sense.
@misc{adamatzky2019fungal,
abstract = {As one of the primary consumers of environmental resource, the building
industry faces unprecedented challenges in needing to reduce the environmental
impact of current consumption practices. This applies to both the construction
of the built environment and resource consumption during its occupation and
use. Where incremental improvements to current practices can be realised, the
net benefits are often far outstripped by the burgeoning demands of rapidly
increasing population growth and urbanisation. Against the backdrop of this
grand societal challenge, it is necessary to explore approaches that envision a
paradigm shift in how material is sourced, processed and assembled to address
the magnitude of these challenges in a truly sustainable way, and which can
even provide added value. We propose to develop a structural substrate by using
live fungal mycelium, functionalise the substrate with nanoparticles and
polymers to make a mycelium-based electronics, implement sensorial fusion and
decision making in the fungal electronics and to growing monolithic buildings
from the functionalised fungal substrate. Fungal buildings will self-grow,
build, and repair themselves subject to substrate supplied, use natural
adaptation to the environment, sense all what human can sense.},
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author = {Adamatzky, Andrew and Ayres, Phil and Belotti, Gianluca and Wosten, Han},
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keywords = {2019 biology},
note = {cite arxiv:1912.13262Comment: The position paper to be published in the International Journal of Unconventional Computing},
timestamp = {2020-01-06T19:32:21.000+0100},
title = {Fungal architecture},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13262},
year = 2019
}