{"id":6879,"date":"2014-11-10T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2014-11-10T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:15:53","slug":"reedcyclers-believe-it-or-not-growing-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/11\/10\/reedcyclers-believe-it-or-not-growing-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Reedcycler's Believe it or Not: Growing Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Reedcyclers<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s time once again for some weird waste! In today’s installment, we’ll look at some experimental ways where buildings are grown instead of built, providing lower impact ways to create large structures.<\/p>\n

Functional fungus grows house in days<\/h3>\n
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Click the photo to watch a video about the Hy-Fi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Houses made from mushrooms seem like something straight out of a fairy tale. But the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s \u201cHy-Fi\u201d brings this to reality, containing bricks grown from farm waste and fungus<\/a>. The bricks can be grown in five days, and are compostable.<\/p>\n

The structure is built to draw breezes into the shaded interior, and was designed as a part of MoMA\u2019s Young Architect\u2019s Program.<\/a> The program features an annual competition, and winners often incorporate reused or sustainable materials and features.<\/p>\n

London skyscraper to be built from recycled material<\/h3>\n

The world\u2019s first \u201corganic\u201d skyscraper<\/a> may soon find a home in London, England. The building is designed to take paper and glass waste produced by the building\u2019s occupants, and turn them into the panels which will make up the exterior of the building. It is estimated that enough material will be discarded by the residents that the building should be completed within a year of occupation.<\/p>\n

The structure will be home to a recycling facility, which will sort and process the material gathered in the upper floors. Offices, conference rooms, gyms, and restaurants will be housed in the building, and wind turbines will provide power.<\/p>\n

This post is part of the \u201cReedcycler\u2019s Believe it or Not<\/a>\u201d blog series, which showcases weird waste-related stories. Tune in on Mondays each week for more.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time once again for some weird waste! In today’s installment, we’ll look at some experimental ways where buildings are grown instead of built, providing lower impact ways to create large structures. Functional fungus grows house in days Houses made from mushrooms seem like something straight out of a fairy tale. But the Museum of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292119],"tags":[626965,608247],"class_list":["post-6879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction","tag-reedcyclers-believe-it-or-not","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}