I just published this article over on Inhabitat recently, and thought I would re-post it here, since Mitchell Joachim is currently teaching at Columbia's GSAPP.
Anyone who knows me knows I'm a big fan of treehouses and am enamored with eco-architect Mitchell Joachim's visionary ideas about how to grow living treehouses from ficus molded around frame structures.
Joachim spoke this past summer at the Postopolis event in NYC, and I recorded video of his presentation. I have finally got around to editing the hour long presentation down to some digestible clips, and here is the first one. Joachim is a brilliant architect and a fascinating speaker, so if you have any interest in living treehouses (and we know you do), check out the video above.
And if you enjoy this 5-minute video and want to see more, check out the full-length video of Terreform's many cool projects.
are there plans to build a prototype? i've looked at this project before, and i understand it's not buildable right now, but it seems to me they could plant some trees and start 'shaping' them even if they don't get to implement it fully as a house, just to show it can be done. or maybe there's one growing somewhere in brooklyn already?
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are there plans to build a prototype? i've looked at this project before, and i understand it's not buildable right now, but it seems to me they could plant some trees and start 'shaping' them even if they don't get to implement it fully as a house, just to show it can be done. or maybe there's one growing somewhere in brooklyn already?
[hmmm why is my comment bolded? i didn't do that!]
hmmmm - is every comment bolded?
looks like every comment is bolded - that must be some accidental extra bold html tag leftover in the post..... Sorry!
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