Abstract

In response to global challenges of resource scarcity, increasing attention is being paid to bio-based materials - a domain that covers familiar materials such as timber and emerging materials such as bio-plastics and mycelium composites. The ability to observe, analyse, simulate, and design with their interior heterogeneity and behaviour over time is a necessity for a bio-based and cyclical material practice and opens a deep reservoir of creative and technical innovation potentials within architecture and aligned design practices.