30 May 2006

Houses Woven Out of Trees


Further to the earlier post on the Tree Circus, comes an article from Discovery Channel News where Mitchell Joachim, part of the MIT Media Lab's Smart Cities Group, along with ecological engineer Lara Greden and architect Javier Arbona, propose a home that is made by pleasching (the weaving of tree branches together to form lattices, archways, etc.) trees.

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