{"id":1847,"date":"2006-01-26T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/01\/26\/really-green-building\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T02:17:00","slug":"really-green-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/really-green-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Green Building"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> Growing a home from living trees instead of building a home from felled timber is the goal of an architect from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n Mitchell Joachim, part of the MIT Media Lab’s Smart Cities Group<\/a>, along with ecological engineer Lara Greden and architect Javier Arbona, propose a home that is actually an ecosystem.<\/p>\n The Fab Tree Hab goes beyond sustainable housing and so-called green design \u2014 building with materials that have a low impact on the environment and human health.<\/p>\n “Not only does it do zero damage, but it will hopefully clean the air,” said Joachim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Based on the ancient gardening technique of “pleaching,”<\/a> the proposed house relies on nature for water, heat and human waste disposal. Very cool, but it looks like a long “building” process:<\/p>\n In Joachim’s vision, the exterior of the living house is shaped over the course of several decades into a protective crisscross of vines, interspersed with soil pockets and growing plants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Can’t get much greener, certainly… I guess I could get started on a home for retirement. I wonder if you have to start planning from the point of actually planting trees…?<\/p>\n Categories: green building<\/a>, trees<\/a>, innovation<\/a>, weird<\/a>, MIT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Discovery Channel via argotnaut, evidence that you don’t have to cut down trees to build with them: Growing a home from living trees instead of building a home [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
From the Discovery Channel via argotnaut<\/a>, evidence<\/a> that you don’t have to cut down trees to build with them:<\/p>\n