Mushroomiya
A monumental pendant dome that reinterprets the mashrabiya through grown mycelium, designed by Andy Cartier for NUMU.
- Year
- 2026
- Location
- Dubai, UAE · for NUMU
- Materials
- Mycelium grown on palm-derived fibre
- Credits
- Designed by Andy Cartier for NUMU · from The Mushroomiya Threshold research with Dalia Hamati (studioDA) and Mathieu Andries
- Status
- In development · BASE39 Creative Accelerator 2026, winning finalist
- Diameter
- Ø 1200 mm
- Grown in
- Dubai
- Made
- To order
Images are visualisations; the production mould is being fabricated.
From a threshold to a lamp.
Mushroomiya began in The Mushroomiya Threshold, a research collaboration between Andy Cartier, Dalia Hamati of studioDA and Mathieu Andries. It proposed a contemporary mashrabiya, conceived as a living gateway for Dubai Design Week 2025, drawing on vegetal ornament, airflow, filtered light and layered pattern.
Andy Cartier later adapted that design language for NUMU into a single monumental pendant dome: the threshold research turned into an inhabitable object.
Pattern and material, one organism.
The pattern source and the structural material are the same organism at two scales, thread and object. Grown on palm-derived fibre, mycelium binds the substrate into a solid, lightweight lattice where the ornament is the material itself.
Lit from within, the open-cell shell projects a landscape of shadow across walls, ceiling and floor: a mashrabiya grown rather than carved.
Ø 1200 mm, made to order.
Mushroomiya was a winning finalist of the BASE39 Creative Accelerator 2026. It is made to order by commission at Ø 1200 mm, grown in Dubai, with the light source confirmed per project.
The production mould is being fabricated in Dubai; every image on this page is a visualisation. Commissions and specifications are handled by NUMU.
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