This structure designed together with Studio Vincent Architecture was part of Folly Art Norg 2024. During this one month festival everyone was welcome to walk a 1,5 hour route through the beautiful surroundings of Norg, Drenthe. Along the way visitors will encounter 20 foolish buildings designed and built by talented artists, architects and spirits alike. The assignment was to design and make a 'folly'; an unconventional building or structure, unsuitable for housing or other functions. And if there is no function, what material would you use? A new and unknown material, mycelium which is a network of fungal threads. Our structure consists of 69 panels made out of this new building material. The mycelium was grown on sawdust for a week, dried for another week and deactivated in the oven before hanging them up into this wooden structure made out of wooden poles, planks and sticks connected through pin and hole. The panels are put up high as a new material for visitors to discover and for the wind to play with.
Location Norg, Drenthe
Client Folly Art Norg
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