Project by Hyoju Kim + Andrea Hernandez
Mycoentropy is a temporary artistic space proposed for the T9 Warehouse site in Fort Tilden, New York. The project challenges architecture’s reliance on permanence by exploring impermanence as a structural and ecological strategy. Mycoentropy frames growth, transformation, and decomposition as integral phases of architectural life. The design reinterprets the warehouse by retaining its steel frame and extending it with a wooden structure. A tensile network of steel cables wrapped in rope made from local plants (straw and cattail) establishes a new structural system. As mycelium colonizes this rope substrate, it reinforces the cable assemblies, transforming them into living columns. They expand and adapt to spatial needs, carving out niches, paths, and cavities that define areas for exhibition, performance, and gathering. The interior is shaped through a molding and excavation process that allows mycelium growth to determine spatial geometry. Over time, the same organism that generates structure initiates its breakdown, aligning the building’s lifespan with ecological cycles.
