Project: Hy-Fi Location: New York, US Design: The Living


Biodegradable pavilion opened at Moma PS1


New York studio the Living designed a tower for MoMa's PS1 Gallery made from mushrooms and corn stalks, that, according to the designers, grew from nothing but earth and returned to nothing but earth, "with almost no waste, no energy, and no carbon emissions.” The Living won Moma


PS1's Young Architect's Programme, which challenges designers to come up with creative ideas for a temporary outdoor installation at MoMa PS1 that provides shade, seating and water. The Living's winning


project, Hy-Fi, launched at MoMa PS1 in Long Island City


in late June and was open over the summer. It was built using a


combination of organic and refl ective bricks. The organic bricks were produced by New York start up Ecovative using waste corn stalks, which are harvested, chopped up then combined with specially formulated mycelium, a mushroom root material. This mixture is packed into moulds, and can then be used as a building material. The Hy-Fy tower is the


largest structure created to date using the organic bricks, which have mainly been used as packaging material up until now.


At the end of the tower's life, the refl ective bricks were sent back for research and the organic bricks are being composted


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