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[NBS] Urban Mushroom Farm, NBS developed as part of URBiNAT, featured at Biennale di Architettura 2021


November 5, 2021

Urban Mushroom Farm, one of the NBS developed as part of the URBiNAT project, featured at the Biennale di Architettura 2021, Venice.

The Urban Mushroom Farm, one of the of the Technological Nature-Based Solutions developed by the Barcelona-based Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), as part of the URBiNAT project, was presented at this year’s Biennale di Architettura in Venice.

This NBS consists of a modular system developed to grow edible mushrooms in the urban environment, producing both food and construction materials.

The solution is composed by modules that are designed with two main aims: allocating the substrate needed to grow mushrooms and shaping the construction material that can be obtained from it.

Further reading..

For more information about the urban mushroom farm NBS, including the challenges it addresses, innovation aspects and the potential for replication and scalability, click HERE

You can also download a PDF version of this NBS ↙️

 

Highlights of the Spanish Pavilion and Biennale di Architettura 2021