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BALEWORKS Cornell University Led by Marta H. Wisniewska & Regenerative Architecture Lab

Eavan Flanagan, Edozie Onumonu, Felix Heisel, Akua Appiah-Adu, Sebastijan Jemec, Amina Lahham, Bodie Chisum, Helen Bennett, Jasper Owen

BaleWorks reimagines staging as both a material practice and a cultural act. Constructed from straw bales held within modular timber frames, the project operates simultaneously as an architectural installation, infrastructural prototype, and platform for engagement between the public and surrounding landscape.

Developed through a cross-disciplinary collaboration spanning architecture, plant science, and landscape architecture, the installation foregrounds the often-invisible relationships between agriculture, construction, and waste, positioning the act of building itself as a form of performance.

BuildFest 2026: Acts of Construction Act One — Staging

📸 @b__a__photo taken in Original Site of Woodstock by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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BaleWorks is ReAL’s proposal for BuildFest 2026 at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Following the lab’s mission to explore biogenic resources, this project focuses on straw as a building material, and, over time, as a vessel for human waste that can contribute to soil nourishment and regeneration.

A hierarchy of modules- from straw bale to timber frame, wall, floor and roof- forms adaptable architectural units that can be multiplied, rotated, disassembled and rearranged for different needs.

BaleWorks Design Team: ReAL: Marta H. Wisniewska, Eavan Flanagan, Edozie Onumonu;
CCL: Felix Heisel.

Additional Prefabrication and BuildFest Team Members: Akua Appiah-Adu, Amina Lahham, Bodie Chisum, Helen Bennett, Jasper Owen, Sebastijan Jemec

Big thanks to the amazing team members, as well as @buildingfestival @bethelwoodscenter, The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) and @aapstudentservices for all your support throughout this endeavour! by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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Introducing Buildfest 2026: Staging Installation 4, BaleWorks, by @marta.h.wisniewska founder of @regenerativearchitecturelab and faculty at @cornellaap

BaleWorks reimagines staging as both a material practice and a cultural act. Constructed from straw bales held within modular timber frames, the project operates simultaneously as an architectural installation, an infrastructural prototype, and a platform for engagement between the public and the surrounding landscape. Developed through a cross-disciplinary collaboration among faculty and students in architecture, plant science, and landscape architecture at Cornell University, with support from a waste management industry partner, the installation foregrounds the often-invisible relationships between agriculture, construction, and waste, positioning the act of building itself as a form of performance.

#designbuild #regenerativearchitecture #sustainabledesign #woodstock #fullscale taken in Original Site of Woodstock by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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Bio-Based Materials Collective (BBMC) 2026 Summit @biobasedcollective @massdesigngroup

My special thanks @davidmmmtodd, James Kitchin and Billy Craig for welcoming me into this exceptional bio-based community.

Beautiful photos by @katiehan_

@regenerativearchitecturelab @cornellaap @cornellarchitecture by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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Grateful to have participated in the Bio-Based Materials Collective (BBMC) 2026 Summit in the Hudson Valley on May 8 as both a speaker and "Fungal Foundations: Exploring Mycelium as a Building Material" workshop leader alongside an inspiring group of experts across agriculture, forestry, finance, and design.

I shared my work @regenerativearchitecturelab @cornellaap on bridging research and pedagogy through bio-based materials classes and design-build initiatives, and led a workshop exploring mycelium bound composites as a material and collaborative practice.

Thankful for the conversations, connections, and collective momentum around regenerative material futures.

https://biobasedcollective.org/2026-summit/ by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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One year after 2024 Build Fest, MycoShell is standing proudly on the grounds of the original Woodstock Festival, becoming more and more part of the ground its materials originally came from.

#circularconstruction #reuse #regenerativearchitecture #circulareconomy #mycelium #vault #woodstock

@regenerativearchitecturelab @andrewb_9 @cornellaap @cornell.architecture @bethelwoodscenter @buildingfestival taken in Bethel Woods Center for the Arts by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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Had a fantastic time on an inspiring bike tour exploring a great selection of adaptive reuse projects in Antwerp, alongside the wonderful participants of ICSA2025. by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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Amazing work of my recent thesis students: Nandini Mohan, Brenda Bai and Adam Boecker. Fall 2024. by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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We managed to get to Bethel Woods 5 min before sunset on our way from NYC and see MycoShell in the winter version ❄️❄️❄️ and it looks good! taken in Bethel Woods Center for the Arts by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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Take a look at highlights from BuildFest 2024 featuring AAP faculty and alums!

Organized and curated by Neal Lucas Hitch (M.S. MDC '24), BuildFest was a five-day live-work festival where academics and researchers built large-scale art installations on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival.

Images 1-4: MycoShell - installation by Architecture Lecturer Marta H. Wisniewska's Regenerative Architecture Lab, and Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab.

MycoShell exhibits the potential of biological self-growing and adaptive building materials toward a collaborative future of the digital and the analog. MycoShell is constructed of structural mycelium-bound composite panels that have been grown from a local fungal strain of the Ganoderma family on regional agricultural byproducts of corn and hemp.

Images 5-8: Curtain Call - installation by Office Office cofounded by AAP alum Cait McCarthy and Jordan Young (both M.Arch '20)

Curtain Call investigates the use of semi-automated construction methods to test the formal, spatial, and structural capacity of light wood framing. Semi-automated construction is a hybrid method that emphasizes human-robot collaboration and allows human participants at all skill levels to easily engage in the construction process.

Read the full article in Dezeen - link in bio.

Images: Breyden Anderson (2,5) and Thanut Sakdanaraseth (1,3,4,6,7)

@regenerativearchitecturelab @marta.h.wisniewska @felix.heisel
@caitmccarthy @jordanpttn @officeoffice_ @ab_cde_works @buildingfestival @bethelwoodscenter @cornelleinhorn @cornell.architecture @neallucashitch @andrewb_9 @atkinsoncenter by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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A nice BuildFest24 summary by Ellen Eberhardt on Dezeen taken in Bethel Woods Center for the Arts by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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MycoShell at Bethel Woods 2024 Build Fest
Cornell Regenerative Architecture Lab and Circular Construction Lab

MycoShell is an installation that exhibits the potential of biological self-growing and adaptive building materials designed to reflect the advancing research of the MycoBuilt project, a cross-disciplinary collaboration of faculty and students in mycology, engineering, and architecture at Cornell University, MycoShell is constructed of structural mycelium-bound composite panels that have been grown from a local fungal strain of the Ganoderma family on regional agricultural by-products of corn and hemp. Additionally reinforced with natural fibers, the result is a bio-based, carbon-negative, and fully circular building component with structural capacities.

MycoShell Project Credits:
Marta H. Wisniewska (ReAL) and Felix Heisel (CCL),
Andrew Boghossian, Brenda Bai, Lauren Franco
Natasha Becker, Matthew Glaysher, Marina Rosolem, Jeeya Savani

MycoShell BuildFest team:
Idil Derman, Eavan Flanagan, Edozie Onumonu, Jasper Owen

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@ab_cde_works
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@bethelwoodscenter
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@cornellaap
@cornell.architecture

#mycelium #myceliumdesign #myceliumconstruction #architecture #designbuild #material #materialexploration #circularconstruction taken in Bethel Woods Center for the Arts by @regenerativearchitecturelab

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