For sustainable systems our class was assigned to create planters made out of the material ‘mycelium’ a mushroom like substance that grows over time into a hardened brick like object, and will mold to whatever structures you create for it.

Our concept ideas:

• make a sieve-like type of bowl where you could simultaneously plant the plants and have holes at the bottom for drainage purposes
• balance the pot on stilt-like wooden pegs and make it so that it can be elevated above other planters
• we are concerned about space in tiny Parisian apartments and roof gardens; space is of the essence and is essential that as much of it that can be used up, is.

Prototype images:

 

In the end we ran into an issue with the hardening process, it seemed our structure was too wet and began to over-mold and fell apart, instead we decided with the contents to put it into a compost.