Living Buildings

By Simon | Published: September 29, 2009

Baubotanik-largeHot on the heels of a recent post about living bridges comes this story of architects in Germany who are looking at the use of plants as support structures in buildings so that houses and cities can grow “into the sky”. Their website discusses a number of projects involving using plants, often Willow trees, to build living architecture. Whereas the living bridges used the trunks of other trees to provide initial scaffolding, the Baubotanik group use steel scaffolding to provide the initial load bearing function which is replaced over time by the strength of the plant material as it matures. More photographs and commentary can be found in this german information centre article.

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