Live architecture: Grow your own home
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:07
in Biology & Nature
The concept of coaxing living trees into useful objects, sometimes called tree shaping, arborsculpture, living art or eco-architecture, isn’t new. But now engineers and plant scientists from Tel Aviv University have taken their leafy designs to the next, and more practical and playful, level.
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