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Showing items 1 through 9 of 70.The Isihlangu Towers were designed to meet the challenge of building a tall wooden building suitable for a hot and humid climate.
The House of Trees is comprised of two major components: a frame which relies on a repeated and joining W design to create stability and allow for easy expansion and a number of small modular units..
The Hive design relies on a honeycomb structural system built with prefabricated mass-timber pods that are arranged in an alternating pattern similar to other efficient, high-strength structures commonly found in nature and occurring at a cellular level in timber and other plant forms.
A prototype for a high-rise with a structure made entirely of wood, Endless Canopy is a 30-story tower covered in plants to create the illusion of an endless canopy or a vertical forest that stretches from the ground floor to the very top of the tower.
Rising from a forest of trees, the Sky’s the Limit is an experimental modular housing tower built entirely with wooden structural elements that aims to be both functional and beautiful.
The Vertical Village is designed as a functional and innovative wooden high-rise that provides comfortable living conditions in a large city located in a humid, subtropical climate.
Bamboo Housing regenerates deforested areas by creating self-suf- cient housing communities that cultivate their own raw materials.
The Branching Durban project encourages an intimate relationship between residents and nature, by relying on nature’s intelligence and questioning commonly held notions of enclosed space.
The Flexi-Bach design is based on the lifecycle of a household and is intended to accommodate the evolving size of households in New Zealand where a large increase in single and double person homes is expected.