Are Living Treehouses In Our Future?
Mitchell Joachim of Terreform, a non-profit, sustainable architectural design organization, discusses how we can manipulate the growth of trees to make a sustainable living home of the future. The idea for the technology has been around for 2500 years and he offers video of examples of controlled tree growth. Living tree houses would eliminate wasted energy used in harvesting wood for lumber, hauling and cutting lumber, and they would be carbon neutral.
The idea that these are futuristic homes stems from bureaucracy really. Will one be able to get a building permit for a living treehouse? Will insurance companies insure a living treehouse? I hope insurance companies and city planners will at least approve a test home. Why wait for the future when we have now? I don’t know that we can get much greener than living in treehouses. Take a look at the video and decide for yourself.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1097293/mitchell_joachim_of_terraform_on_sustainable_architecture/
Other helpful links about the “Fab Tree Hab”, Mitchell Joachim and Terreform:
http://www.archinode.com/bienal.html
http://terreform.blogspot.com/
http://www.blogger.com/profile/11839742033660255237
Mark said:
As long as the world has free thinking people like this, there will be creative solutions available for open minded folks. When you look at how many sensible homes have been built using materials like clay and stray, it is a wonder that we’ve not seen more tract homes built using eco-friendly materials that provide for good insulation.
May 25th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Tree houses said:
I’d have no problems living in a tree house. It’d be pretty sweet:)
September 1st, 2009 at 9:58 am
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