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To: tejek who wrote (794557)	7/10/2014 1:13:22 PM
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Corn Husks and Mushrooms: The Future of Architecture? By Adam Andrus on July 9, 2014 modernfarmer.com Does the future of architecture mean we will be living in houses made of corn husks and mushrooms? It just might. And that’s exactly what David Benjamin and his architecture firm, The Living, have created with “ Hy-Fi,” a structure that will be the main attraction in the courtyard at New York’s Museum of Modern Art PS1 this summer. Hy-fi — which won the 15th annual Young Architects Program — will be built by using self-assembling blocks comprised of chopped corn husks and specially-formulated mycelium, a mushroom root material that, when combined with the husk, can be packed into any shape that solidifies over time. “Our organic bricks are exciting because they harness the incredible biological algorithm of mushroom roots and tune it to manufacture a new building material that grows in five days, with no waste, no input of energy, and no carbon emissions,” said Benjamin in an interview with Metropolis.....