Casa Wabi Mushroom Pavilion, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.

When Mushrooms Design the Building

An aerial view reveals the pavilion’s ellipsoidal concrete shell, punctured by a circular oculus that brings daylight into the interior chamber. Architecture: OMA / Shohei Shigematsu. Photograph: Rafael Gamo At Casa Wabi in Mexico, Shohei Shigematsu, head of OMA’s New York office, handed the design brief to a living organism and let the mushroom answer […]

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