Living Tectonics
Elective Graduate Course, Fall 2025
Living Tectonics: Mycelium Futures Studio explored engineered living materials through hands-on experiments with waste-based substrates, biological growth, and hybrid fabrication workflows. Students worked across casting, robotic 3D printing, and custom growth chambers, developing prototypes that integrate mycelium, moss, and plant systems within architectural assemblies. Materials ranged from spent cork and hemp to groundnut shells and recycled aggregates, foregrounding biological variability as a design parameter rather than a limitation.
Instructor: Ehsan Baharlou, Dr.-Ing.
Teaching Assistant: Ipsita Datta
MYCOTENTING (Virginia Fuss) | ROOTED IN WASTE (Jen Yabut and Céline Oberholzer)
LIVING LAYERS (Annie Durden and Logan Lindstrom) | ROOTED CANOPY (Dasani Madipalli)
BRYO-CRETE (Lilly Hagen) | ECHO-LAMELLAE (Daniel Kim and Martin Ji)
