Growing things

Richard Reames is an arborscupltor, growing objects from living trees. Such as chairs, benches or even houses. Here is also an example of a boat, that his neighbour was growing:

This house is located in Bio Park on Okinawa island.







Thanks to J*B for showing me this!

More furniture growing as living trees:

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the company Plantware are partnering up to grow structures from trees on a commercial scale – structures including bus shelters, playgrounds, and even houses.

There are already aeroponics pilot projects happening in the US, Australia and Israel, through which trees are grown in the air so that they have shapeable “soft roots.” The project hopes to take the technology to bigger-than-a-bread-box levels, creating sustainable, eco-friendly structures.

It’ll take awhile to see the new technology in action, since trees take awhile to grow, but we will indeed start seeing a few structures like park benches, gates, streetlamps and so forth grown out of trees.

Via ecogeek