23/09/2025
Updates from our test house featured on Dezeen 🤩
Almost a year since the opening of the Myceen x PAKK Pavilion as one of the world’s first buildings to use mycelium-based insulation. Over 80 sensors have been tracking its performance in a timber frame envelope system ever since, and the first results are in.
Key findings so far:
🟣 Thermal performance on par with mineral wool and wood fibre
🟣 Better regulation of humidity and temperature
🟣 Our insulation material had the lowest mould risk of all the materials tested
The study will continue until the end of 2026 to confirm these promising findings, positioning Myceen’s bio-based insulation as a sustainable and highly effective alternative for modern construction.
🌱PAKK Pavilion showcases the future of wood and architecture and combines work from three research groups’ ongoing projects:
- Myceen’s mycocomposite insulation materials;
- Pattern Building’s modular construction systems;
- sLender facade volumetric renovation system
🤝PAKK Pavilion project partners:
Myceen’s novel mushroom mycelium-based wall insulation are monitored, and the performance is compared with conventional materials. The test house is one of the first buildings in the world to use mycelium-based insulation.
Pattern Building is an open-source industrial construction system developed at EKA PAKK based on modular and circular design. Researcher: Renee Puusepp
sLender facade is a study at EKA PAKK of the spatial possibilities of energy-efficient renovations. The project aims to improve daylighting, accessibility, and communal areas in standard apartment buildings that require renovation. Researchers: Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam
🧱The construction of the pavilion was supported by Kalvasta Timber, Viking Window, Thermory, RAITWOOD, Rothoblaas, Timberwise , Silman.
Myceen's research is supported by Beamline Accelerator, Keskkonnainvesteeringute Keskus, Estonian Ministry of Climate, European Union co-funding - NextGenerationEU, EIS | Enterprise Estonia, European Commission and SoTecIn Factory, EIT Culture & Creativity
EKA PAKK's research work has been co-funded by the European Union and the ETAG - Estonian Research Council through the project "PUUSTER” TEM-TA80 and the EKA development grant.
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia / Estonian Academy of Arts, Timber Architecture Research Center PAKK
