Grow-Your-Own Architecture
This has got to be one of the coolest green concepts I’ve seen in a long time: shaping the malleable roots of ficus trees into useful, eco-friendly structures like benches, playground equipment, bus stops and even umbrella stands. The “eco-architecture” technique could one day even be used to grow homes, according to the researchers at Plantware and American Friends of Tel Aviv University. (Be sure to check out the mind-boggling gallery of tree-based structures at Plantware’s online gallery.)
Image credit: American Friends of Tel Aviv University
“Grow-Your-Own Architecture” is really innovative idea and we have to search such a vialbe and environment friendly soulutions for the habitat development. I am working in Bundelkhand region in India. We are helping village people to design their house with alternative cost effective environment friendly solutions. We have walling & roofing options. By seting up alternative building products enterprise we are trying to generate livelihood at village level at the same time we are trying to reduce the Carbon emission.
Sharad Pant
Program Manager
Infrastructure & Livelihood Development
Development Alternatives
Jhansi (UP)
INDIA
The home design above is called: “Fab Tree Hab”, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 by
Team H.E.D. [Human Ecology Design]
Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D.
Lara Greden, Ph.D.
Javier Arbona, M.S.
please see: http://www.archinode.com/bienal.html