Mycelium starts in the soil and then it comes up to grow into a structure that will help to promote biodiversity. Letting the mycelium grow independently with some guidance and help from humans and slime mould might look like my design. I cannot predict exactly how it will grow and behave but my design gives an idea of how it could look like, maybe the top of the structure will be flat or it will be organic like the rest of the structure. In one way the flat top represents the restrictions of putting a roof on something organic. Just like the slime mould, it was growing flat on the glass top because I restricted it to the frames I had created.
The benefit of having a structure that will biodegrade with time is that it will leave nature just as before. In my case, it will leave nature better than before and help it grow. There is the fact that the structure will gradually biodegrade, and some parts might break down faster than others and leave it on the ground for a long time. But nature will take its time to break it down and bring it back to the soil where it came from the start. Creating a full circle of life.
One thing is very clear throughout my whole process of designing and experimenting. You cannot control nature. It will behave and do as it wishes and will find the best way itself. If you interfere with the path it has created it will find another way. I wanted the slime mould to grow straight to my oats but I could not control the ways it was taking.
I have been letting nature guide me to design for nature. The best solution for a strong ecosystem.
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