Architectural Druidry
Some cool treehouses, via Inhabitat.
Though they're nowhere near as weird as these. Meanwhile, I'm still partial to Andrew Maynard's designs –
– which you can read about here.
(I want a treehouse).
Though they're nowhere near as weird as these. Meanwhile, I'm still partial to Andrew Maynard's designs –
– which you can read about here.
(I want a treehouse).
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Treehouses are awesome and always will be. What if we all lived in them and the squirrels could still go from the East coast to the Mississippi without touching the ground? And we could have zip-lines instead of streets too.
Or maybe somehow these treehouses could be hooked up to the gondolas of New York.
They definitely seem related. I think both the treehouses and the gondolas tap into that perfect sense of isolation and self-containedness within a visible community (elevated compartmentalization). Both appeal to the childlike need for a place to play alone, but within view of the house. I think the same instinct lies behind why I climb onto my roof for cigarettes in the summer: a small, open but isolated, compartment of my own, one that lets me feel in touch with the city, but completely independent from it. As well, the sense of ownership conveyed by a treehouse or other compartment is so much greater than in a home. One can survey all one owns, while seeing it in relation to the rest of the world. Great feeling. I miss my treehouse.
Designwise the most tricky part seems to be the ladder. Anybody noticed that there is none? How I am supposed to get in there???
There is a whole article in MARK -Another architecture magazine on treehouses - http://www.mark-magazine.com
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