Episode 8: CarbonShack Design: What Connects Us

The biophilic designs are brought together across many of the CarbonShack finishes — fabrics, carved wood doors and furniture, tile and custom decorative grates — with an exploration of mycelium, the fungal threads that live under the forest floor, breaking down plant materials which they give to trees through their roots, in return for sugars the tree makes via photosynthesis, and creating a kind of wood wide web by enabling trees to communicate with one another to promote the health of the forest as a whole. Using the calculators the team developed for measuring embodied energy, they discover the amount of carbon dioxide they were able to save from being released into the atmosphere in building the CarbonShack.