MArchD Year2 Semester1 Portfolio_Studio7

ARCH 7010 Design Studio Portfolio

FUNGI WONDERLAND Design Studio 7 Ecstatic Fields

Emma Huang 19050346

Tutors: Joel Chappell,Declan Molloy, Louise Cann, Xana Murrell, Robyn Thurston, Dougal Sadler

CONTENT WEEK0 - WEEK2 Collages Exercise

WEEK3 - WEEK5

Materials Explore Handheld1 Model Making

WEEK6 - WEEK7

Handheld2 Digital Encounter

WEEK8 - WEEK9 MDF Tile Making

WEEK10 - WEEK12

Poche Exercise Mycelium Research and Experiment Handheld Model Section Drawing

WEEK0 - WEEK2 Collages Exercise Use the specified Ecstatic Collision word pairs as instruction to create the collision collages with different images and think about how different substances connect and collide with each other

Explosive Apocalypse

"New life exploding from dead but also eroding the dead. Eroded and Destroyed could be reassembled into a new state."

Hard Death Hard substances interlock with the soft substances and erode each other

"Fungi eat death, and in doing so, create new life for next stage"

Skull

Soft Life Fungi

WEEK3 - WEEK4 Materials Explore Handheld1 Models Making Choose materials for experiments based on the concepts from the collages. Ideas and materials collide with each other and metamorphosis happened. New form might be made

Material Experiment

Plaster

Try to get a rough surface from the hard shell

Mesh Wire Fabric

Plaster

Base layer is very weak and unstable

Powder 3D Printing Experiment

By using 3D printing technology to create a sturdy and reproducible hard shell as the model base layer

The light pass through the openings with different scales in the hard shell and projected shadow on the inner surface. It is defining the solid and void

Texture Experiment

Tissue Paper With Resin Plaster

Cast the tissue paper with resin plaster to recreate the rough textured surface and represent the feeling of decay and death

Powder

FDM Plastic 3D Printing Experiment

The shiny and smooth characteristics of transparent plastic and the rough texture of resin plaster create the material contrast

The process from rough to smooth and then disappearing into the dark

The erosion is spreading from the ground to the handheld model and the disappearing of light shows the surface are covered by the eroded substances

WEEK5

Handheld1 Models Making Rethink the concept of erosion, what makes the model become incompleted and reassembled

The Broken Pieces Could Be Reassembled into a New State Breakdown the model and interlock with the broken pieces to cherish the imperfect and redefine the concept of the new life exploding from the death

The Light collides with material, perfect light reflect on the broken pieces

WEEK6 - WEEK7

Handheld2 Digital Encounter 3D scan the handheld scale objects in digital, collide with each other and think about how they connect and meet

Digital Encounter

The cactus and pumpkin as the elements from nature. They collide and combine together

The cactus is like an intruder to entangled with the pumpkin and then attach and grow on the pumpkin to create the new surface

WEEK8 - WEEK9 MDF Tile Making

How drawings & Handhelds can be derived from work. Develop digital model of Tile and how will it become a base to allow the light pass through and interact with the handheld model

Ideas For The Tile

Use dense network texture from the fungi as a medium for light to pass through, The light will pass through the contour line from the center and spread around the tile

The contour line idea come from the tissue paper object, 3D scanned the object in digital to get the outline

Handheld Models Collide With Each Other On The Tile

The light is interspersed between the models through dense network. The dense network symbolizes the erosion and spread of new life

WEEK10- WEEK12 POCHE

Use the digital handheld model to explore the possibilities. The poche wall section creates an experience throughout the structure and void

Poche Exercise

Experience the space through changing of section plane. The erosion is happening over time. The space keep collapsing under erosion. How to survive from the apocalypse?

WEEK10- WEEK12

Mycelium Research and Experiment Pose a strong emphasis on the importance of thoroughly understanding the essential complementarity between the notions of life and death as a whole, the Mycelium is conceived as a tool/method enabling to turn inanimate, synthetic objects into living entities

Mycelium is the fast-growing, vegetative part of fungi, consisting of a tight network of interconnected filamentous cells, called hyphae.

Thanks to such structure, the mycelium is capable of harvesting, transforming and re-distributing nutrients, both for his own benefit (mushroom growth) and for the larger ecosystem.

Threads of mycelium spreading across the surface of a dead or dying tree, where the bark has fallen away and patch of mycelium spread on the wood, with Mycelium threads growing out in every direction in search of food.

Extract Mycelium Experiment 1: Extract Mycelium From Oyster Mushrooms Use the wood chips as the main nutrient for growing the mushrooms

Experimental parameters Temperature: 24 - 27°C Humidity: 60-80% Fresh Air Exchanges: Exposed to the air Light requirement: No

Day 6

Day 12

The mushroom is simply the fruit of mycelium, so in this experiment I try to extract mycelium by growing mushrooms, but the mycelium that grows from wood chips has not been controlled. Also, the yield of mycelium is not enough for the further experiment

Extract Mycelium Experiment 2: Use The Torn Oyster Mushroom With Wet Cardboard

Sterilising cardboard with hot water

Experimental parameters Temperature: 24 - 27°C Humidity: 60-80% Fresh Air Exchanges: 1 Time / per day Light requirement: Dark environment

Separating the cardboard layers

Using torn Oyster Mushroom as mycelium source

Layering moist cardboard with torn mushroom

During the mycelium growing period, no nutrients and water was given, the growth of mycelium rely on the wet cardboard only

Results After 3 Weeks

The mycelium grows successfully and completely covered the existing wet cardboard surface

The Growing Environment In The Glass Box

The moisture in the glass box comes from wet cardboard, it is also the nutrient of mycelium

Extract Mycelium Experiment 3: Growth On Agar

Day 0

Experimental parameters Temperature: 24 - 27°C Humidity: 60-80% Fresh Air Exchanges: 1 Time / 1~2 day Light requirement: Dark environment

Day 6

Day 12

By using different mycelium growing materials and transfer them to building materials in order to observe which method grows mycelium more successful in attaching and changing materials

Testing The Tile In Rhino

Green area shows the location of the mycelium first planted

Study the possibilities of mycelium growing and covering the builing facade by testing on different tiles

Clay Printing Tile

Prepare the clay tiles for the experiments of the mycelium growth on building materials in 1:1 scale

Transfer The Agar Mycelium To The Clay Tile

Experimental parameters Temperature: 24 - 27°C Humidity: 60-80% Fresh Air Exchanges: 1 Time / 1~2 day Light requirement: Dark environment

Mycelium first grow in the agar plate. After that, Mycelium with agar pieces are transferred to the clay tiles. In this experiment, the agar would be the main sources of nutrients for the mycelium.

WEEK10- WEEK12 Case Study Infusing life in dead, toxic, eternal matters, enabling processes of cyclical dissolution

Injecting Life In a Dead Everlasting Object: Plastic Chair

The mycelium wool cover on the chair surface for supporting the life and growth of the fungus, providing nutrient grounds and conditions favouring the mycelium steady expansion and the related transfer on the plastic material, for its overall colonisation, transformation and final dissolution

Once the plastic chair is fully colonised, it can be placing it in the garden or literally burying it in the ground

Growing Architecture - Pavilion Grown From Mycelium

The mushrooms growing in the panel frames were harvested every day The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame.

The outer panels were grown from mushrooms, with the mycelium in the roots providing strength and the panels were attached to a timber frame, and can be removed and repurposed as necessary.

Mycelium Tectonics Composite With Hemp Fiber Mycelium is a living agent-system in the project. The hemp fiber structure built here connects two plexiglass plates and It provides a good substrate to mycelium growth. Result shows a success composite material made of (and by) mycelium

The project is try to understand how mycelium growth can be influenced and guided to evaluate its role as construction, decomposition or re-assimilation material

WEEK10- WEEK12 The Fungi Wonderland The project of Fungi Wonderland by using the fungi as the main research material to explore the technology and methods behind the potential uses of mycelium.

Mycelium apart from other materials is its ability to regenerate at a quick rate and attach on different surface to form a new space, the designed to welcome their new natural state by mycelium.

M y c e l i u m i s g r o w i n g e v e r y w h e r e i n the building, it allows the fungi lovers to re-establish connection to the natural world and to be in the wonderland.

Alice In The Wonderland - A Tiny Door To Another World

"Once Alice falls through the rabbit-hole into Wonderland, the reality that surrounds her undergoes profound change. The wonderland presents with visual portrayals of fantastic inversion and alterations of perspective and relative size" The contrast from tiny, dark environment to the open space crea t e f e e l i n g o f s u r p r i s e a n d e x c i t e d t o t h e u n k n o w n

WEEK10- WEEK12 Handheld Model Section Drawing Use hand drawing to capture the light and shadow in the model. Define the hidden space and void in sections

Handheld Model Drawing - Plan Section A

Section B

Handmade Handheld Drawing - Section

Section A

Section B

Handmade Handheld Drawing - Detail

F u n g i f e e d o n d e a d o r g a n i c m a t ter and act as nature’s recycling machinery The floor, the wall, the stair form by mycelium and changing its state over the time

References https://www.corpuscoli.com/projects/the-ephemeral-icon/ https://www.dezeen.com/2019/10/29/growing-pavilion-mycelium-dutch-design-week/ http://mycelium-tectonics.com/category/news/

https://kanika-khanna.com/mycelium-architecture/ https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/20/aleksi-vesaluoma-mushroom-mycelium-structure-shows-potential-zero-waste-architecture/