Growing architecture : how to design and build with trees / Ferdinand Ludwig, Daniel Schonle ; with a preface by Sonja Dumpelmann.

By: Ludwig, Ferdinand [author.]
Contributor(s): Schonle, Daniel [author.] | Duempelmann, Sonja [writer of preface.]
Language: English Publisher: Basel, Switzerland : Birkh�auser Verlag GmbH, [2023]Description: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783035603323; 3035603324Subject(s): Landscape architecture | Organic architecture | TreesDDC classification: 712.09173/2 LOC classification: SB472.7 | .L83 2023
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Buildings and Trees -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Botanical Foundations -- 3. Techniques and Tree Species -- 4. Fusion of Trees and Buildings -- 5. How Living Structures Interact with Their Environment -- 6. Designing with Trees and Time -- 7. Utopias and Visions: Living Architecture between Science and Fiction -- 8. Vers une Arbotecture: Towards a Future Tree Architecture -- Appendix.
Summary: Building with trees has a tradition that stretches from the living bridges of India to dancing lime trees. Following on from this, the new discipline of Baubotanik is dedicated to designing with trees. Built projects and visionary concepts point the way to a new green architecture. This introduction explains the basics of constructing with trees and goes into the botanical growth laws that guide the design.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Buildings and Trees -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Botanical Foundations -- 3. Techniques and Tree Species -- 4. Fusion of Trees and Buildings -- 5. How Living Structures Interact with Their Environment -- 6. Designing with Trees and Time -- 7. Utopias and Visions: Living Architecture between Science and Fiction -- 8. Vers une Arbotecture: Towards a Future Tree Architecture -- Appendix.

Building with trees has a tradition that stretches from the living bridges of India to dancing lime trees. Following on from this, the new discipline of Baubotanik is dedicated to designing with trees. Built projects and visionary concepts point the way to a new green architecture. This introduction explains the basics of constructing with trees and goes into the botanical growth laws that guide the design.

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