Period: 5, 6 & 11 November 2020
Mycelium: Yellow Oyster Mushroom
Weather: Mostly clouded between 8 and 15 degrees, no rain.
Supplier: John Verbruggen B.V.
Type: Octagonal, 220cm high.
Pigeon Tower
Dom
Nov '20 – Pigeon Tower 05
Dominik’s tower was an evolutionary leap forward. It combined all learnings from earlier experiments with a touch of design genius by Dominik Einfalt.
We wanted to compress the bricks for this tower to avoid tilting so Josef Zappe created a press with two car jacks. We made a delicious syrup with the juice that flowed from the mycelium during pressing. Dominik Einfalt created a robust octagonal design for the tower. we decided to cut the pressed mycelium bricks at a 45 degree angle allowing an octagonal shape. The different treatments of the bricks slowed down the proces but added much needed control. We covered up the tower to prevent dehydration and because mycelium grows better in the dark. Two weeks later, the inside looks like a kaleidoscope of mushrooms.
Arne Hendriks Checking on one of the Pigeon Towers -
With:
Arne Hendriks
Close up from one of the Pigeon Towers - Mycelium growing on straw
Fungi Fruits growing on the side of the Mycelium Pigeon Tower -
Designer Dominik Einfalt checking the mycelium textures -
With:
Dominik Einfalt
Taking a closer look at the way the tower has transformed itself -
With:
Doudouce Knol
Different lay-outs of building the octagon Mycelium Pigeon Tower -
Close up from one of the Pigeon Towers - Mycelium growing on straw
Close up from one of the Pigeon Towers - Mycelium growing on straw
Layer by layer, Dominik shapes the Mycelium bricks into a tower -
With:
Dominik Einfalt
Snapshot of building the Mycelium Pigeon Tower - Sixteen layers of Mycelium bricks
With:
Dominik Einfalt
Dominik building the fundament for a new Mycelium Pigeon Tower -
With:
Dominik Einfalt
