A Brunel University student has developed a technique for using mushrooms as an environmentally friendly construction material.
Student Aleksi Vesaluoma worked alongside architecture firm Astudio to create the grown structures series using mycelium, the vegetative part of a mushroom fungus.
Vesaluoma developed a technique where the mycelium material is mixed with cardboard before being moulded into what he calls “mushroom sausages” using a tube-shaped cotton bandage.
The long sausages are then placed over a mould and left to grow over a four-week period inside a ventilated greenhouse.
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