From lab toward production
Studio Cartier is a design studio that develops its own materials. This is the research line behind the work: where each material question came from, who it was explored with, and how far it went.
CleanLab
A living-material design internship and the starting point of the practice: a broken chair given a grown seat, mycelium cast together with plaster, biodegradable plant pots and the mycelium pigeon towers. Documented by Andy in articles on mediamatic.net.
With Nehis Osagie, Dominik Einfalt and Arne Hendriks · Mediamatic CleanLab
Project record ↗Documented in the written record; no photographs in the archive.
Beyond Chrysant Wall
A chrysanthemum nursery’s own discarded stems grown into an acoustic wall for its processing hall: one waste stream, one growing process, one place of use.
As Colllective with Nehis Osagie and Dominik Einfalt · SIGN · Beyond Chrysant
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Beyond Chrysant — grown acoustic wall surface, detail Growing Airplanes
Mycelium as an alternative core material in composites. A surfboard became the proof of concept: Grown.bio substrate, horticultural waste, linen fibres and a biobased epoxy resin.
Airbus · InHolland · SIGN · Grown.bio
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Mushboard research — grown core, composite development and prototype testing Living Shelter
Three mushroom structures, each about 3.5 metres tall, outdoors in Mycelium Parc for six months. A laser-cut wooden skeleton and fabric formed both structure and mould, and stayed inside the finished work.
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A laser-cut wooden skeleton beside a grown column ReRoot
Palm waste and mycelium as a modular shelter proposal, connecting material experimentation with building from resources close at hand.
Dima Al Srouri · Dalia Hamati · Andy Cartier · Rosa Hämäläinen
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ReRoot — installation and mycelium panel construction C-Biotech
As Head of the Mycelium Department, Andy Cartier led material formulation, cultivation, process development and applications for construction and interiors, moving from laboratory work toward pilot production.
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C-Biotech — mycelium composite construction sample NUMU
Mycelium materials from regional agricultural residues, including date-palm fibre, connecting formulation and production with applications for interiors.
Project record ↗Growth timelapse: fibre to grown block in 5–7 days. Footage: NUMU. Mushroomiya
A monumental pendant dome, a mashrabiya grown rather than carved, on palm-derived fibre. Winning finalist of the BASE39 Creative Accelerator 2026. Visualisations; the production mould is being fabricated in Dubai.
From The Mushroomiya Threshold research with Dalia Hamati (studioDA) and Mathieu Andries
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The shell beside inoculated substrate and loose palm-derived fibre. Visualisation. Image: NUMU.
Shared as it is learned
Research only matters if it travels.
Andy Cartier contributed the chapter “Borrowing from Nature as a Regenerative Design Strategy” to Designing Mycelium (Routledge, 2024), and teaches through lectures, workshops and masterclasses at institutions including DIDI, the American University of Sharjah, Heriot-Watt University and De Montfort University.