{"id":163643,"date":"2025-11-05T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:04:10","slug":"yong-ju-lee-grows-pavilion-from-mycelium-using-3d-printing-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163643\/","title":{"rendered":"yong ju lee grows pavilion from mycelium using 3D printing in seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yong ju lee pioneers bio-grown architecture through mycelium<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/yong-ju-lee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yong Ju Lee Architecture<\/strong><\/a>, Mycelial Hut is an experimental <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/temporary-pavilions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>pavilion<\/strong><\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/architecture-in-korea\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Seoul<\/strong><\/a> that investigates the potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/mushroom-mycelium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mycelium<\/strong><\/a>, the dense fungal network that binds and regenerates organic matter, as a large-scale building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/materials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>material<\/strong><\/a>. The project explores how architecture can be cultivated through a hybrid process that combines robotic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/3d-printing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>3D printing<\/strong><\/a> with biological growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Structurally, the pavilion consists of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/wood-and-timber-architecture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>wooden<\/strong><\/a> frame that provides stability and a series of mycelium panels that form its enveloping skin. Each panel was grown inside a customized 3D printed mold, shaped by industrial robotic arms and filled with a selected substrate. Before this phase, the research team tested multiple types of mycelium mixtures, assessing their growth rates, density, and structural behavior.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1162619 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"yong ju lee grows bio-integrated pavilion from mycelium using robotic 3D printing in seoul\" width=\"818\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/yong-ju-lee-bio-integrated-pavilion-mycelium-robotic-3d-printing-seoul-designboom-02.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>images courtesy of Yong Ju Lee Architecture<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mycelial Hut Grows, Breathes, and Decomposes with Nature<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an era when architecture and construction remain the largest global sources of carbon emissions, Mycelial Hut proposes a fundamental material shift. For much of the modern period, concrete and steel symbolized progress and economy, yet their environmental cost has become untenable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yongjulee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Seoul- and New York-based firm<\/strong><\/a> Yong Ju Lee Architecture\u2019s pavilion turns toward organism-based composites, materials that are biodegradable, recyclable, and regenerative, to question the very premise of what makes a building sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Developed in collaboration with the Robotic Fabrication Studio (RFS) at Seoul National University of Science and Technology and installed in the open landscape of SeoulTech\u2019s campus, Mycelial Hut embodies a vision of bio-integrated architecture that grows out of its environment. It makes the notion of eco-friendly design tangible, inviting visitors to imagine a future in which buildings are not manufactured but cultivated, alive, decomposable, and deeply entangled with the ecosystems that sustain them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1162618 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"yong ju lee grows bio-integrated pavilion from mycelium using robotic 3D printing in seoul\" width=\"818\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/yong-ju-lee-bio-integrated-pavilion-mycelium-robotic-3d-printing-seoul-designboom-01.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>designed by Yong Ju Lee Architecture and developed in collaboration with the Robotic Fabrication Studio<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1162627 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"yong ju lee grows bio-integrated pavilion from mycelium using robotic 3D printing in seoul\" width=\"818\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/yong-ju-lee-bio-integrated-pavilion-mycelium-robotic-3d-printing-seoul-designboom-10.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>Mycelial Hut is an experimental pavilion that investigates the potential of mycelium<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1162625 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"yong ju lee grows bio-integrated pavilion from mycelium using robotic 3D printing in seoul\" width=\"818\" height=\"1227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/yong-ju-lee-bio-integrated-pavilion-mycelium-robotic-3d-printing-seoul-designboom-08.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>the project explores how architecture can be cultivated through a hybrid process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"yong ju lee pioneers bio-grown architecture through mycelium \u00a0 Designed by Yong Ju Lee Architecture, Mycelial Hut is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[21126,18,19,17,456,94568,82,54999,3489,94569],"class_list":{"0":"post-163643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-3d-printing","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-materials","13":"tag-mushroom-mycelium","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-temporary-pavilions","16":"tag-wood-and-timber-architecture-and-design","17":"tag-yong-ju-lee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115495348946581204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}