It's not summer in NYC without MoMA PS1's yearly unveiling of their Young Architects Program winner--the most innovative design culled from a competition filled with mind-melding contestants. In the past the Queens-based museum has turned their courtyard into an air-cleaning crystal castle, a giant skate ramp, and even an anthill. This year's winner, Hy-Fi by David Benjamin’s design firm The Living, will be a 100% biodegradable organic structure created from mushroom and corn bricks.Known for combining biomimetics with architecture, Benjamin (in collaboration with bio-material specialists Ecovative) utilized advanced computation and engineering to create the 100% green building materials. To create a suspended-in-air look, hollow reflective bricks will be interspersed into the formation--giving the appearance of a massive floating form.According to Pedro Gadanho, MoMA Architecture & Design curator, Hy-Fi “is the first sizable structure to claim near-zero carbon emissions in its construction process and, beyond recycling, it presents itself as being 100% compostable.”
Hy-Fi from David Benjamin.via PSFK
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