Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Michael Carroll & Chris Cornelison
The paper centers on the investigation of myco-based materials for architectural application and the creation of an architectural installation to feature the work as part of the Atlanta Design Festival in October 2023. This paper will provide an overview of the research and development of a series of myco tiles/forms with 3-D printed substrates/scaffolds with fifteen undergraduate architecture students enrolled in a fifth-year Focus Studio at Kennesaw State University located in Metro Atlanta. This is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Michael Carroll, Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture and Dr. Chris Christopher Cornelison, Associate Professor of Applied Microbiology. Professor Carroll is the founder and director of the MAT_Lab, a materials library and exhibition space and Dr. Cornelison is the Principal Investigator of the BioInnovation Laboratory (Figure 1), both located at Kennesaw State University. This project will bring the resources from both the MAT_Lab and the BioInnovation Laboratory together in the investigation of new materials that use t mycelia, the filamentous branching microscopic masses of hyphae that comprise the rootlike structures of fungi, and agricultural waste by-products, such as cotton gin by-product and peanut hulls, in ‘growing’ materials that can be used for various architectural and design applications. Selected student projects highlighted in the paper include: a decorative vase and tabletop, a column, a lamp shade, a myco-paper screen, a column, an acoustic tile, interlocking myco bricks, and an air filtering device.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.InterMaterialEco.23.15
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