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There are houses built in trees and then there are treehouses. Last year, we had one of our first encounters with a home literally made from trees, using the art of weaving (and sometimes grafting) trees together to form structures a practice ecological designer, Richard Reames, called "Arcorsculpture." The Fab Tree Hab was one of the design entries for the
Index: awards, emerging from the genius of a crew including MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and our friend, Javier Arbona of Archinect. The project description emphasized consideration of whole systems (and ecosystems) in creating a truly sustainable built environment, rather than a piecemeal approach that could yield uncertain longterm outcomes.
This is not exactly garden variety as building strategies go, but its certainly among the most ornate, natural, and "green." German landscape architect, Rudolf Doernach, used techniques like this in what he broadly called "biotecture" or "agritecture." Like permaculture, these methods are set up to be largely self-sustaining, meaning that once the initial planting and early training of the branches is complete, the structures continue to grow on their own, requiring minimal external energy while providing maximum agricultural yield (as in the Fab Tree Hab, which is meant to provide food for the inhabitants). Permaculture is also about inclusion, accessibility, and mutual service between humans and the natural world. With proper knowledge, you should be able to grow your own house!
As the Australian Rainforest Information Centre points out, these are the ultimate in low-cost, low-maintenance, zero-energy homes:
"Doernachs creations produce incredible savings compared to inert construction/insulation materials and have great potential for employment, given that say, 10 million homes have 100,000 hectares of plantable surface suitable for food cultivation. Insulation, energy-savings, noise-reduction, dust suppression, carbon dioxide conversion, oxygen production and psychological benefits are all positive by-products of planted walls."
<?php
//Function to format any string to be inserted into Javascript
function JavaSafe($val) {
$val = str_replace("\\", "\\\\", $val);
$val = str_replace("\'", "\\\'", $val);
$val = str_replace("\"", "\\\"", $val);
$val = str_replace("\t", "\\t", $val);
$val = str_replace("\r", "\\r", $val);
$val = str_replace("\n", "\\n", $val);
$val = str_replace("<", "<", $val); // Not sure if I need these
$val = str_replace(">", ">", $val); // ^
return $val;
}
//print the onmousemove event - It's a little messy I'm afriad.
print "onmousemove=\"ShowImageInfo(this, '" . JavaSafe($Image->Title) . "', '" . JavaSafe("<p>" . str_replace("\n", "</p><p>", $Image->Description) . "</p>") . "');\"";
?>
Sample Output:
onmousemove="ShowImageInfo(this, 'Garden House', '<p>There are houses built in trees and then there are treehouses. Last year, we had one of our first encounters with a home literally made from trees, using the art of weaving (and sometimes grafting) trees together to form structures a practice ecological designer, Richard Reames, called \"Arcorsculpture.\" The Fab Tree Hab was one of the design entries for the</p><p>Index: awards, emerging from the genius of a crew including MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and our friend, Javier Arbona of Archinect. The project description emphasized consideration of whole systems (and ecosystems) in creating a truly sustainable built environment, rather than a piecemeal approach that could yield uncertain longterm outcomes.</p><p>This is not exactly garden variety as building strategies go, but its certainly among the most ornate, natural, and \"green.\" German landscape architect, Rudolf Doernach, used techniques like this in what he broadly called \"biotecture\" or \"agritecture.\" Like permaculture, these methods are set up to be largely self-sustaining, meaning that once the initial planting and early training of the branches is complete, the structures continue to grow on their own, requiring minimal external energy while providing maximum agricultural yield (as in the Fab Tree Hab, which is meant to provide food for the inhabitants). Permaculture is also about inclusion, accessibility, and mutual service between humans and the natural world. With proper knowledge, you should be able to grow your own house!</p><p>As the Australian Rainforest Information Centre points out, these are the ultimate in low-cost, low-maintenance, zero-energy homes:</p><p>\"Doernachs creations produce incredible savings compared to inert construction/insulation materials and have great potential for employment, given that say, 10 million homes have 100,000 hectares of plantable surface suitable for food cultivation. Insulation, energy-savings, noise-reduction, dust suppression, carbon dioxide conversion, oxygen production and psychological benefits are all positive by-products of planted walls.\"</p>');"
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