Growing Architecture : : How to Design and Build with Trees / / Ferdinand Ludwig, Daniel Schönle.
A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew how to connect the branches of rubber trees to form footbridges, and in southern Germany dance lime trees formed the centre of villages for centuries. Follo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2022] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Buildings and Trees
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Botanical Foundations
- 3 Techniques and Tree Species
- 4 Fusion of Trees and Buildings
- 5 How Living Structures Interact with Their Environment
- 6 Designing with Trees and Time
- 7 Utopias and Visions: Living Architecture between Science and Fiction
- 8 Vers une Arbotecture: Towards a Future Tree Architecture
- Appendix