An Israeli group called Plantware is already working towards a system of mass producing structures such as houses. They already grow park benches and bus stops and figure the technology will be available within 10 years to grow houses. Who knows, someday we may be living in apartments like this one;
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Arborsculpture was coined in 1995, to name one person's method of shaping trees. The arborsculpture method is to use extreme bending to achieve an instant and inferior product. The long-term problems are dieback and uneven growth.
Richard Reames is the only person who uses this method to shape trees. This method of shaping trees has never gained a following, due to poor results.
None of the trees in these photos were shaped using the Arborsculpture extreme bending method.
Well perhaps I have my specific terminology wrong but all I meant was that the trees in the pics above (disregarding the photoshop job on the apartment tree at the bottom) were altered and shaped my humans and did not grow naturally in that way. And I think its totally cool. And the underlying message was that I love any attampt to have us assimilate with our envirinment rather than just rape and pillage it. If we can find ways to coexist with nature in a more mutually beneficial way then hoorah! Arborsculpture and other such techniques may simply be us experimenting with ideas, and it may lead to another technique that does benefit us as a species. Here's hoping. And in the mean time it's fun play :)
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