Year: 2021
Category: Landscape & Urbanism
Skills: Grasshopper, Rhino, Enscape
Unfolding into a playful, ever-growing network of friendly mushroom like objects, Fungus Among Us can be inhabited in multiple ways. These shapes take the form of giant umbrellas, collective sun-bathing lounge chairs, or performing stages set in the city fabric. The wooden structures, composed of bended slats shaped using a simple steaming technique, transforms the urban hardscape into a soft and organic playground inspired by nature. (Designers: Marc-Antoine Chartier-Primeau Eliana Nigro)
Based on the striking patterns of mushroom gills, simple twisting and splicing of modular wooden segments provide a sturdy structure without resorting to distinct supporting elements. The continuous curved lamellas render a soft feel, introducing a natural and delicate quality to the urban space, with ever-changing effects of light and shadows.
Build as a growth system, Fungus Among Us populates a given site informed by surrounding points of interests, its soft data. Much like a plant seeks sunlight, these structures are shaped by the cultural and social opportunities surrounding them in an organic way, following simple mathematical rules, yet generating intricate shapes and highly versatile clusters.
The intriguing silhouettes vary in scale, some convex, others concave, they invite to retreat from the city buzz, to gather under a graceful wooden canopy, or to simply take a stroll through the multiple paths of this abstract forest.
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