permaculture

[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

biotecture is hardly new, tho there is still a lotta room for R & D.

http://www.arborsmith.com/history.html


tho his efforts seem to be put more toward earning money by selling  
self-contained tree-sculpture projects,  Richard Reames has been  
actively doing this for years.  subscribe to his too infrequent  
newsletter to keep in touch with.  the applications in permaculture  
are endless & little explored.  our willow kiva project we planted in  
97 failed because of a bad choice of species (a local river willow  
species that suckers profusely).  the new projects will consider the  
species a lot more carefully (the biomass willow seems a much better  
choice of salix).

~mIEKAL


On Jan 21, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Will Carey wrote:

> Folks...
>
> This is interesting... Pleached tree housing concept from MIT types.
>
> <http://www.archinode.com/bienal02.html>
>
> Excerpt:
>
> A methodology new to buildings yet ancient to gardening is  
> introduced in
> this design - pleaching.