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The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame.

Designed by set designer and artist Pascal Leboucq in collaboration with Erik Klarenbeek‘s studio Krown Design, the temporary pavilion is made entirely from bio-based materials.

The outer panels were grown from mushrooms, with the mycelium in the roots providing strength. These are covered with a coating that is a bio-based product originally developed by the Inca people in Mexico.

The panels were attached to a timber frame, and can be removed and repurposed as necessary. The floors are made from cattail – a type of reed – with interior and exterior benches made from agricultural waste.

“There are a lot of bio-based materials but they can be hard to recognise at first, and they often stay at sample stage,” Leboucq told Dezeen. “I really wanted to make a bigger statement, so that a lot of people can discover this fantastic material.”

“The idea of the Growing Pavilion started from the mushrooms, but it became bigger. Everything is built from plants and trees or agricultural waste,” he continued.

Leboucq began working with bio-based materials three years ago, after meeting Klarenbeek for a project.

“I met Eric Klarenbeek and at that time mycelium was very closely connected with him. I asked him to work together in taking the material to the next step so that you could make spaces out of it,” he said.

“What I really like is that mycelium is very organic and natural, but you can really use it as a designing product. It’s very easy to shape into furniture, for example. This combination of the two was magic for me.”

The resulting drum-shaped pavilion was installed at Ketelhuisplein during last week’s Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.

“Of course it’s experimental, so we really don’t know how long a pavilion will stand for, but we think it could last for about four months,” said the designer.

The mycelium panels are very light, and according to Leboucq they are well-insulated in terms of temperature and sound. Each panel can be repaired or reused elsewhere once the structure is taken down.

Although the waterproof coating is from Mexico, Leboucq argues that it’s sometimes better to work with a natural product that isn’t local and has to be imported, than to work with a polluting synthetic product made closer to home.

Leboucq worked with creative storytelling platform Company New Heroes on a schedule of events at the space during the design week, to engage visitors with the potential of the materials.

Musician Jacqueline Hamelink ran a project called Growing Music. Each day, a live concert of music by JS Bach took place. After each performance, the sounds were merged together to build a soundscape that was played in the pavilion.

The mushrooms growing in the panel frames were harvested every day at 3pm in front of an audience, with the produce cooked and available to purchase from a food truck that was located on Ketelhuisplein.

Benches created by Atelier NL from trees felled in the storm that hit Eindhoven in June this year were also dotted around the area, offering visitors a place to sit.

Other bio-based products created by designers were displayed in the space. These included Manureality, a collection of furniture made from horse manure by Martijn Straatman, and Living Skin by Aniela Hoitink – clothes made from materials such as mycelium, kombucha and algae.

An atlas of materials and the companies was available to designers and members of the public who visited and were interested in finding out more about bio-based materials.

“If you want to make a change, you should make the information open source,” argued Leboucq. “People sit on it and try to protect the information, which I understand because a lot of designers are small companies working really hard seven days a week to run their businesses, but if you work together it goes much faster.”

Images by Eric Meander unless otherwise stated.

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Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have designed an extension to the design museum in Ghent, Belgium, which will form a link between its existing galleries.

Named DING – Design in Ghent, the addition is hoped to improve circulation and provide additional exhibition space at Design Museum Gent, which currently comprises three individual buildings.

Designed by Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw, the extension will have its own street-level entrance so that it can also function independently from the museum.

“Museums are facing increasing challengers to connect visitors to their collections,” explained Andy Groarke, director of Carmody Groarke.

“We were therefore very inspired by Design Museum Gent’s ambition to create a new building that makes a visit to their museum relevant, inviting and accessible to all.”

Design Museum Gent, the only museum dedicated to design in Flanders, currently comprises three buildings: an 18th-century town mansion, a wing built in 1992 and third building named Leten House that dates back to the 16th-century.

The visuals show the entrance to DING will be positioned between Leten House and an old town house that currently contains a restaurant.

Here, the extension will be marked by large openings puncturing its facade, which are designed to increase transparency to encourage more passersby to enter.

“We wanted to create a building that is civic in character at both street level and on the Gent skyline and designed a new ‘house’ for the museum as part of the set piece of the historic streetscape,” explained Groarke.

This entrance will lead into a ground floor “community room”, which Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw hopes will become a meeting place for locals.

Above, the three upper storeys will be designed with “flexible and modular” interiors that will enable them to be adapted over time.

They will have large windows that the studios have aligned with “key views” of the city. The fourth floor of the building will contain a gallery that looks out across the Ghent skyline.

DING was the winning entry of a competition held by the Flemish Government Architect as part of its biannual open call for teams to complete a range of major public schemes.

As part of the project, underutilised spaces within the existing buildings will also be updated to make them more useable. Construction is expected to begin in 2021, wit the building set to be completed by the end of 2023.

Carmody Groarke is a London architecture studio founded in 2006 by Kevin Carmody and
Andy Groarke.

Other recent projects by the practice include The Hill House Box at Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House in Scotland and the Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District.

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Designer Iker Gil and Luftwerk have projected a grid of red lasers across Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House to highlight the building’s geometric form and its history.

The installation is the second iteration of the Geometry of Light laser-display designed by Mas Studio‘s Gil and Luftwerk, which was previously installed at the Barcelona Pavilion.

Its designers hope that the geometric lighting, along with a sound piece by Barcelona-based sound designer Oriol Tarragó, will help people understand the building’s relationship to its site in Plano, Illinois.

“Together these elements provide a new interpretation of the Farnsworth House and its extraordinary location,” Gil told Dezeen.

“The intervention uncovers the forgotten history of the site and remnants of earlier landscapes by revealing the underlying geometries that relate the structure of the house to its river floodplain, site topography, and key trees that no longer exist.”

Each of the lasers, which illuminated the house for three days early this month as part of the installation that coincided with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, was located to show the house’s structure.

They are also placed to draw attention to three trees that were previously located on the site and the levels of five floods that have reached the house, which is built within the Fox River floodplain.

“The installation highlights the structural elements that define the modules of the inside of the house, the terrace, the platforms…and it helps to understand those elements in relationship to its surroundings,” explained Gil.

“It is a way to consider those elements that are invisible but that have shaped the history of the house, from the trees that no longer exist to the flooding levels that challenge its preservation,” he continued.

Throughout the installation the lasers were turned on in different combinations to highlight individual elements that can be hard to appreciate when you can see the whole house.

For example only horizontal lights were used to show the house’s relationship to the river and the flooding which occurred.

Gil hopes that the installation will allow people to look at the well-known house in a new way.

“Overall, it is important to understand that historic buildings like the Farnsworth House can be continuously reinterpreted and still teach us many lessons,” he said. “They were ahead of their time and we should continue to revisit and reinterpret them.”

Farnsworth House was designed by Van der Rohe as a one-room holiday home for Edith Farnsworth in 1951. It is considered a key example of the International style and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006.

Set near a river the house has been flooded on numerous occasions including in 1996, 1998 and 2008. In 2014 a proposal to raise the house on hydraulic jacks to prevent further flood damage was made, although this has yet to be implemented.

Photography is by Kate Joyce.

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The Moshi Symbus Q is a literal two-bird-one-stone scenario, with the added benefit of the stone being a stylish rectangle that’s compact enough to fit right into your backpack. The Moshi Symbus Q provides you with a way to wirelessly charge your smartphone (even through rugged cases) while giving your laptop extra ports to work with, namely a 4K HDMI, Ethernet, and 2x USB 3.0 ports. Additionally, it comes with a USB Type-C input that supplies it with power, and a USB Type-C output that you can plug into your laptop to fast-charge it too.

The Symbus Q does a couple of useful things and does it well. Its advanced Q-coil technology allows it to wirelessly charge your smartphone through cases as much as 5mm thick (so you could charge your phone through a Pop-socket). The wireless charging surface is a plush fabric that cushions your phone without scratching it, paired with a non-slip pattern printed on it that holds your phone in place. The rest of the Symbus Q is a nifty aluminum body that looks great alongside your laptop, while ultimately dissipating heat to remain cool as it juggles all its activities, whether it’s the ability to give your laptop an external 4K display, or super-fast 1000mbps speeds via a wired internet connection, or just the ability to plug your USB drives into your Type-C laptop or ultrabook. A perfect multitasking metallic cuboid for the multitasking professional.

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