After the unstoppable advance of technology and industry led by a humanity with ambition and lust for power, architecture must reconvert and adapt to the new needs, not only of human beings, but of the Earth itself. Climate change is an unstoppable giant and we, as architects, must become aware of the problems of our era. This is how the idea of Metanverse arises for this competition, adaptive architecture that mimics the environment and the beings who inhabit it. It proposes a series of houses and pavilions made from the controlled growth of mycelium in order to generate biodegradable structures. The mycelium acts, in the ecosystem it inhabits, as a neural network that connects the infinite points of a forest. This project seeks the idea of connecting architecture with the existing Earth, joining us, after centuries of colonization, with nature and accepting a role of cohabiting in parallel and not generating relations of superiority. Personally, I want to give a message, an idea that has haunted my conscience for years. Architecture must be nature, it must feed, nourish and mimic itself. We were, we are and we must end up being nature, architecture begins and must end in nature, therefore a biodegradable structure, which in the future, where its usefulness is compromised, will join with nature.

Mycelium House by @Metanverse_

A prototype house made with mycelium in the Asian forests of Japan. It connects and has a direct language with the environment and the changing context.

Mycelium House by @Metanverse_

CloseLook of Mycelium Neural Network

Mycelium Structure and the contrast between architecture and nature

Mycelium Pillar

Mycelium House by @Metanverse_

Mycelium Pavilion by @Metanverse_