Mycoform Surface: Multi-Curved Mycelium Mushroom Structure at Terreform ONE

WHY GROW A SURFACE? These prototypes for a mycoform surface system occupy the intersection of parametric CAD design and synthetic biology. Their multi-curved shapes are designed and cut digitally, but the segments are grown from strains of fungi into the specific 3D geometries of the piece. Mycoform is a product grown from ordinary biological matter and added to precise compacted forms of inert waste. We use polypore fungal species (in this case the fungus Ganoderma lucidum) that possess enzymes to readily digest a wide variety of cellulose based agricultural byproducts. The internal filler is made up of mycelia substrate, a combination of discarded wood chips, gypsum, oat bran, which is consumed by mycelia and then hardened into a tough, durable functional material. The external skin is bacteria cellulose. The mycelia substrate and bacterial cellulose integrate to become a hard biopolymer that is suitable for architectural applications. This low-tech, low energy process is pollution free, and contains a low embodied energy as part of a local ecosystem. The technology is easily transferable to the developing world. At the end of the useful product life cycle, Mycoform can be composted and safely reintroduced back into the environment, where it can be naturally biodegraded.

Credits: Terreform ONE + Genspace 
Principal Investigators: Mitchell Joachim, Oliver Medvedik, Melanie Fessel 
Team: Maria Aiolova, Ellen Jorgenson, Shruti Grover, James Schwartz, Josue Ledema, Tania Doles, Philip Weller, Greg Pucillo, Shivina Harjani, Jesse Hull, Peter Zhang, Matthew Tarpley, Amanda O’Keefe, Bahar Avanoglu, Ipek Avanoglu, Brent Solomon, Pedro Galindo-Landeira, Yinan Li, Sophie Fabbri.
Sponsor: Ecovative

Who Creates the City? Transforming the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a sustain...

Thanks To Our Generous Sponsors and Donors

Welcome to Jessica W. Catlow to the Terreform ONE Board of Directors

Jessica is a lawyer experienced in representing both companies and executives regarding executive compensation issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, and private equity financing.  
In addition to executive compensation, she advises employers in all aspects of traditional employment law, including providing counseling with respect to performance management, discipline and termination of employees. She represents employers in litigation and administrative proceedings involving claims for discrimination, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. She earned a JD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark, and BA in Sociology, New York University.

Creator Space, Micro Exhibition for Terreform ONE

Terreform ONE, Creator Space Micro Exhibition, BASF 150th Anniversary
May 28th 6:30 - 9:45 PM, 509 W. 34th St. 2nd FL. New York, NY.

Mitchell Joachim at Goethe Institut NYC

Who Creates the City?

"Urban Places – Public Spaces" is held as a three-part series from February to April 2015 in the Münchner Kammerspiele. The educational TV channel ARD-alpha will record and broadcast the events.

Mitchell Joachim is Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Associate Professor at NYU. 

Mitch McEwen, Principal of McEwen Studio and co-founder of SUPERFRONT.

Joachim and McEwen will discuss the recent transformation of the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a sustainable industrial park and how residential vacancy in Detroit can be converted into an opportunity to support local cultural assets.

http://www.goethe.de/ges/prj/urp/enindex.htm

Frank Lloyd Wright School: Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

Taliesin West Lecture Series at Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.
The lectures will explore open-source, pro bono and public space design by some of the world's leading architects and designers: Casey Reas, Mark Lakeman, Matthew Passmore, Emily Pilloton, Mitchell Joachim.

Maria Aiolova lectures at University of Greenwich in London

THE ART OF URBANEERING – TERREFORM ONE LECTURE BY MARIA AIOLOVA

New Terreform Logo: Nature in the City

Fast Company Features Global Design Book.

Fast Company: 7 Ways Architecture Can Tackle Global Warming

Scale is the issue explored in a new book called Global Design, drawn from the global warming-focused New York University project of the same name. In it, architects Louise Harpman and Mitchell Joachim along with Peder Anker of NYU's environmental studies department explore climate change solutions from the design world, both completed and conceptual.

 http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042651/slicker-city/7-ways-architecture-can-tackle-global-warming

Mitchell Joachim at The College Art Association Event

The College Art Association - Towards a Better Future: Art, Activism, Ideas, and Opportunities beyond the Studio. 
Chair: David Brown, Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University.  
Elizabeth Thompson, Buckminster Fuller Challenge.
Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE.
Amina Ross, 3rd Language.  
The Autonomous Energy Research Lab.
http://conference.collegeart.org/programs/towards-a-better-future-art-activism-ideas-and-opportunities-beyond-the-studio-part-ii/

Future podcast: Maria Aiolova and Cities

Killing The Breeze presents Tyler Rose Mann’s Community, Environment and Social Justice podcast. This week I sit with Maria Aiolova.
http://killingthebreeze.com/building-cities-future/

ARCHITECT Magazine Interview with Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE

Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE is the co-founder of New York-based design nonprofit Terreform ONE, which was founded in 2006. He spoke with ARCHITECT about the organization’s design philosophy and some current projects.

SEE HERE: http://www.architectmagazine.com/videos/detail/ar-2015-02-04-mitchell-joachim-of-terreform-one/2187379

Rebuild by Design: panel with Maria Aiolova, Terreform ONE

The BAC is partnering with Rebuild by Design for a discussion on how to ready Boston’s ecology, infrastructure, and culture for the future of climate change. Maria Aiolova moderated a panel on "Designing for Resilience.
http://bostonarchitecturalcollege.cmail1.com/t/ViewEmail/j/D65BFB63CD0C9B38/9EF03F661375CDC92540EF23F30FEDED

Plug-In Ecology: Urban Farm Pod in Central Park NY

Exhibition of Design for Resilience at BAC w/ Terreform ONE

Exploring the Rebuild by Design proposals, along with new work from Terreform ONE, opens a window that suggests how Boston could arrive at a safer tomorrow.
Design for Resilience, Boston Architectural College (BAC), McCormick Gallery, MA.

Terreform ONE projects: Governors Hook, Resilient Water Infrastructure, and Urbaneering.

http://www.the-bac.edu/experience-the-bac/news-and-events/events/design-for-resilience-exhibit

AT&T Upwardly Mobile with Terreform ONE

AT&T Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTwcj3mduk4
http://themobilemovement.tumblr.com/

AM New York Terreform ONE and New Lab

Christian Salazar, "Brooklyn Tech Triangle is center of booming New York industry," AM New York, Nov. 17, pp. 4-5. 
Amanda O’Keefe, Architect Designer and Kristopher Menos, Research Fellow, Terreform ONE.

Terreform ONE Symposium in Berlin w/ Maria Aiolova

Terreform ONE and TU Berlin organized a symposium on the POST CARBON CITY w/ Maria Aiolova and Raoul Bunschoten.

2014 ONE Prize “Smart Dock” results reveal two first-prize winners | News | Archinect

2014 ONE Prize “Smart Dock” results reveal two first-prize winners | News | Archinect

THE LUCENT CUBE – Yun Wan, Silvia Lopez, Balazs Fekete
London, United Kingdom.

SELF GROWING LAB – Victor Diaz, Ariel Santiago, Carlos Garcia, Danniely Staback, Nestor Lebron
San Juan, Puerto Rico.

COL-LAB – Jaehun Woo, Youra Cho, Sang Hoon Park, Hwang Dong Eun
Seoul, South Korea.

SKOOL HAUS– Nikole Bouchard, Vanessa Moon
Milwaukee, USA.

ONE PRIZE WINNERS HERE

Fox 5 News The Big Idea Terreform ONE The Living House

Interview with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE by SHARON CROWLEY, Fox 5 News.
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/26877265/the-living-house

Vice Interview at Terreform ONE w/ Melanie Fessel

Don't Do it Yourself, Do it Together!

Maria Aiolova lectures at ONE Architecture Week in Bulgaria: THE POSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE.

 

Effects are causes. Means are ends. Capital creates labour, information – events, works – art. End points are points of departure. The utopias of the past now simulate themselves. Their realisation was also their end. Their attractive power used to derive from their inherent sense of doom and impossibility. Today, there are no utopias because everything is possible.

http://edno.bg/en/one-architecture-week-2014/calendar/1497

Welcome Vivian Kuan the New Executive Director of Terreform ONE

Vivian Kuan is the Executive Director for Terreform ONE. She was a Launch Director at the internet incubator, idealab! and later directed the online strategy and ecommerce business units for the Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. and for The L’Oreal Group Inc. Before that, Vivian worked as an architect in Taiwan, Hong Kong, as well as in New York City for Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. She earned an MBA/MA at the Wharton School/Lauder program, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.Arch. from Cornell University.

Willow Balls in Guardian UK Sustainable Business

Among Terreform ONE’s recent designs are tree spheres called Willow Balls. They are living treehouses just 8 feet (2.43 meters) in diameter. Joachim considers them semi-permanent, and says they can be used as seasonal spaces like gazebos or other outdoor recreational spaces. They’re made by growing ficus trees over a scaffolding frame similar to what gardeners do when they use pliable living plants to create archways. Once the fast-growing ficus trees cover the sphere, the scaffolding can be removed and re-used with another set of plants.While the living-plants portion of the sphere is natural, Terreform ONE will manufacture the scaffoldings in Brooklyn out of wood or metal. Terreform ONE is currently taking orders for the scaffoldings – priced at $8,000 – and expects to put them on sale in early 2015.
see:
Are tiny houses and micro-apartments the future of urban homes? by Rachael Post

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/25/tiny-houses-micro-living-urban-cities-population-newyork-hongkong-tokyo

Post Carbon City State NYC: A New Borough Made with Phytoplankton and Tread Patterns