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Designing the Process: Mycelial Hut | Yong Ju Lee Architecture

Yong Ju Lee Architecture (Yong Ju Lee)

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SPACE November 2025 (No. 696)

 

  

 

 

The construction and architecture sectors currently account for the highest level of carbon emissions of all industrial fields worldwide. Architecture, which has supported humankind for ten thousand years, entered the twentieth century with efficiency and economy as supreme values, adopting concrete and steel almost exclusively as its materials. In this context, as the world has experienced a pandemic and is facing an environmental crisis, an innovative critical approach has emerged to redefine the concept of sustainability. Specifically, the use of organic-based composite materials suggests a new possibility for architecture, which has long depended on inorganic materials that cannot be recycled or decomposed. By presenting experiments using the mycelial body of mushrooms – an organism that plays a filtration role in our ecosystem – this project reinterprets the concept of eco-friendly architecture and demonstrates the potential of innovat...

 
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Architect

Yong Ju Lee Architecture (Yong Ju Lee)

Design team

Oh Dachan

Location

232, Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, Korea

Programme

pavilion

Site area

10㎡

Gross floor area

10㎡

Height

3.7m

Structure

wooden frame

Design period

July – Sep. 2024

Construction period

Sep. – Dec. 2024

Cost

5 million KRW

Collaboration in experimental and data studies

EarthForm

Coding and fabrication

Robotic Fabrication Studio (Oh Dachan, Kim Hakjoon

Yong Ju Lee
Yong Ju Lee is an architect who pursues experimentation across all layers of space. His works, spanning diverse scales and media, seek to provoke and inspire everyday life. He has exhibited at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Venice Biennale, and received the Korea Public Architecture Award, iF Design Award, and Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard. He studied architecture at Yonsei University and Columbia University, and is currently an assistant professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, leading the Robotic Fabrication Studio. He published Constructing Thought (2024).
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