The House That Spores Built, potential new building material discovered - Polidicks

[url=http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-house-that-spores-built]Phil Ross may have discovered the building material of the future[/url] [QUOTE]Phil Ross may have discovered the building material of the future. It's sturdy, resilient, and environmentally sustainable—practically inexhaustible, in fact. It can withstand everything from extreme temperature to a hail of bullets, and once it’s no longer useful, it can be easily composted.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]But it wasn't until he built a small teahouse from Reishi mushroom bricks at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf—and then boiled the bricks themselves into tea for gallery visitors to drink—that he realized this material might have life beyond the museum walls.[/QUOTE] Children's books becoming a reality.

that looks absolutely disgusting

I can imagine that this and hempcrete would go pretty fucking smoothly together. Not only would hemp give that steady supply of organic starter needed for the creation of the fungi bricks, but it'd also keep it practical. We could also have things like corn stalks and such being used in the process as well. [editline]20th September 2014[/editline] [t]http://philross.org/wp-content/themes/billhoss/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://philross.org/wp-content/gallery/mycot_singles/mycoteccopy.jpg&w=593[/t]

Looks horrible, but seems like it will be very practical in the future.

So how fire resistant is it?

[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;46030302]So how fire resistant is it?[/QUOTE] It'll likely burn just as well as dried wood, as it's grown from sawdust.

but how long will it last?

It's probably a great insulator because the stuff is so dense. [QUOTE=lintz;46030340]but how long will it last?[/QUOTE] [quote]This year, Evocative partnered with architect David Benjamin to build Hy-Fi, a fungal tower in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in New York. Built from 10,000 mycelial bricks coated in a reflective film, the glistening white structure ...[/quote] I guess if it can reliably withstand the outdoors, probably a long time. It mentioned using other biodegradable material to grow bricks out of too... Well, I honestly don't know.

[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;46030302]So how fire resistant is it?[/QUOTE] It probably a bit more fire resistant than wood, as I imagine it is denser and not as porous. If the fungus is still alive it probably would be less flammable because it would contain a certain amount of water.

[QUOTE=derpyllama;46030299]Looks horrible, but seems like it will be very practical in the future.[/QUOTE] You most likely have paint or wallpaper on your walls don't you?

Shave a slice of your house to go with your bacon and eggs for breakfast, mmm.

No thanks, I'll stick with my mortar and bricks

How insulated is it?

Kinda neat I guess, but not like we are going to run out of clay, sand or wood...

Seems like a good idea, even if its just used for external walls and possibly insulation it seems like it will have a purpose.

Can't wait till we build organic spaceships [IMG]http://lparchive.org/X-COM-Apocalypse/Update%2052/xcoma005.png[/IMG] We are the aliens now, man!

[QUOTE=AlexConnor;46030979]Kinda neat I guess, but not like we are going to run out of clay, sand or wood...[/QUOTE] Its thinking like this that gets us into trouble.

[QUOTE=AlexConnor;46030979]Kinda neat I guess, but not like we are going to run out of clay, sand or wood...[/QUOTE] Actually, sand is becoming a more and more demanded and less and less available resource.

Soon, [URL="http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1135"]SCP-1135[/URL] will be reality.

It's happening [IMG]http://static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1321/Spore2_5504607.jpg[/IMG]

I mean yeah the bricks themselves aren't too attractive but really there's going to be siding and wallpaper and what not. How insulated is it?

[QUOTE=Cows Rule;46031418]I mean yeah the bricks themselves aren't too attractive but really there's going to be siding and wallpaper and what not. How insulated is it?[/QUOTE] They don't say but it's apparently highly resistant to extreme weather conditions, so I imagine at least as good as an igloo for keeping in the heat.

Wait, the mass is bulletproof? How heavy is it? If possible we could make like body armor or armored vehicles out of it.

Couldn't we just skip the whole bricks part, and just literally grow a house out of it?

Pretty amazing, the concept of GROWING bricks rather than shaping them out of clay and baking them in a kiln or drying them out in strong sunlight. I wonder if it'll be much cheaper than the old ways?

[QUOTE=bravehat;46032015]Couldn't we just skip the whole bricks part, and just literally grow a house out of it?[/QUOTE] The process involves growing the fungal bricks in molds filled with pasteurized sawdust, so I guess if you had a large enough mold you might be able to make big enough pre-fab parts to put a house together with. Probably wouldn't be too efficient to straight-up grow a whole house because you'd need a mold for each new design it looks like, in such a case.

So construction will be done by Telvanni wizards from now on? Cool.

[QUOTE=Impact1986;46031073]Can't wait till we build organic spaceships [IMG]http://lparchive.org/X-COM-Apocalypse/Update%2052/xcoma005.png[/IMG] We are the aliens now, man![/QUOTE] I've never liked organic spaceships

[QUOTE=Xenomoose;46032211]So construction will be done by Telvanni wizards from now on? Cool.[/QUOTE] Swing and a bit of a miss, the actual construction was done by Tektons :v:

I'm curious as to how heavy they are, fungi aren't exactly know for their high density