Homes Built With Mushrooms? For Real? Or Just A Happy Hallucination?

A house-sized pair of mushroom shaped housing painted in lurid colors
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If you're thinking this kind of thing, you've got it wrong. We're talking mushrooms as an architectural building material for affordable housing.

Move over tempeh, truffles and psilocybin! A business in the United States is planning to build a 300 unit housing project with mushrooms. Of course it’s not quite that simple, but this article in reasons to be cheerful expounds the possibilities through the eyes of an architect who is hooked: For More Sustainable Affordable Housing, Just Add Mushrooms