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Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab

Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab

Posted on 12/15/201102/27/2018
Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab - Design to Improve Life by MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona
Design to Improve Life by MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona. Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab

Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab
Inspired by the ecocentric attitudes of such beloved American nature-lovers as Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and Alcott, three MIT designers created this living tree-house. In particular, Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona. Meanwhile, in the house the dwelling itself merges with its environment and nourishes its inhabitants. In fact, Fab Tree Hab dissolves our conventional concept of home and establishes a new symbiosis between the house and its surrounding ecosystem.

Fab Tree Town - Design to Improve Life by MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona
Fab Tree Town – Design to Improve Life by MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona

And in order to build the arboreal frame, the designers utilize “pleaching” – a gardening technique in which tree branches woven together form living archways. Trees, such as Elm, Live Oak and Dogwood bear the heavier loads, while vines, branches and plants form a lattice for the walls and roof of the house. Besides, they created the interior structure of cob (clay and straw). A tried and true green building approach, that lends itself to customized shaping of walls and ceilings.

The trees that form the frame and the plants that grow on the external walls – meant to provide sustenance for the inhabitants. As well as other living creatures who interact with the structure. On this level, the designers aim to demonstrate that natural building materials, when utilized in their living state, can create a “superstructure” that is biologically pure and contains no unknown substances. They point out that new building materials, even those that champion sustainability, are nevertheless industrially manufactured. Accordingly, contain components not fully understood in terms of their long term impact.

The Fab Tree Hab is one of a long list of top nominations for awards at Index:, a world design event taking place this fall in Copenhagen beginning September 23. This is the first year for Index: , which is planned to continue on a four-year cycle. The core goal for design entries into Index: is “Design to Improve Life”.

Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab

Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab
Project “Tree Town” – Design to Improve Life by MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona
Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab
Created by MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona
Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab
Unique Tree Town – Design to Improve Life by MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona
Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab
MIT designers’ project – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona
Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab
Design to Improve Life by MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona
Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab
Called Vegitecture Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab

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