The Tree Canopy as Blueprint |
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| Authors: | Mitchell Schwarzer |
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| Abstract: | As the opportunities for new territories become more limited, the only way is up. Mitchell Schwarzer explores the dizzying heights of the ‘last biotic frontier’ of arboreal architecture with its high platforms, walkways and canopy craft. Challenging in construction and engineering terms, the tree canopy also requires engaging with a different atmospheric and climatic range to those conditions encountered at ground level. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | Gilles Ebersolt, Solvin Bretzel, French Guyana, 2003 Marks Barfield Architects, Treetop Walkway and Rhizotron, Kew Gardens, London, 2008 society migrates skywards proliferating machines are engineering global warming green building technologies better building machines new blueprint for design ‘last biotic frontier’ high platforms, walkways and canopy craft ‘wild nature’ Capability Brown the claustrophobic, mysterious boughs of the tree canopy SeARCH Bostoren Schovenhorst Estate in Putten, the Netherlands a cordon sanitaire R&Sie(n) strangling a house with trees Compiégne Forest plastic-walled dwelling Urform Marc-Antoine Laugier Neoclassical design logic Holiday House on a Farm (2002) AMID (cero9) residential shapes resemble clouds Philippe Rahm, Streamscape, Compiégne Forest, France, 2008 R&Sie(n), House in the Trees, Compiégne Forest, France, 1993 symmetrical thermal atmospheres Le Corbusier's insight neglect of the other senses. |
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