MycoHab regenerates Land through bush thinning, mitigates climate changes through the long term storage of organic carbon in building materials, and provides healthy food and housing for Namibia.
REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE:
From bush to housing with mushrooms in between, MycoHab uses fungi to convert organic waste materials into carbon storing buildings and nutritious food.
What is MycoHab?
MycoHab is a pilot project of a collaboration between MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, Standard Bank Group, and redhouse studio. The project mandate was to prove that we can convert Namibia’s encroacher bush into food AND humanitarian housing. The key ingredient is fungi. Namibia is thinning the bush all over their grasslands to combat desertification. This bush can be used as the substrate to grow gourmet mushrooms, and the waste of the cultivation can be used to make carbon storing structural materials. The materials that have been made in Namibia from mushroom cultivation waste rival concrete blocks and use truly circular and regenerative resources.
