Biohab is a demonstration project of MYCOHAB
This page is redhouse studio’s page to describe MYCOHAB’s demonstration project in Nambia. The biohab is the first of many buildings that will be built using the waste from an agricultural process that utilizes waste bush to cultivate mushrooms.
Please see www.Mycohab.com for official page.
See www.redhousearchitecture.org for more info on redhouse.
What is BioHab?
Biohab is the 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.
The BioHab has lead to a start-up in Africa called MycoHab. MycoHab is scaling these processes in Namibia and expanding the concept all over the continent with new centers being planned in South Africa, Guinea, and Mauritius.