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| Whole Ecology Design An Edible Home for Humanity |
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| FAB TREE HAB Local Biota Living Graft Structure |
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| Principles: This home concept is intended to replace the outdated design solutions at Habitat for Humanity International. Our goal was to propose a method to grow homes from native trees. This enables these new local dwellings to be a part of an absolutely green community. 1. Composed with 100% living nutrients. 2. Harmonize & embrace growth. 3. Make effective contributions to the ecosystem. 4. Accountable removal of human impacts. 5. Involve arboreal farming & production. 6. Subsume technology within terrestrial environs. 7. Circulate water & metabolic flows symbiotically. 8. Consider the life cycle, from use to disposal. 9. Achieve a fitness with our earthen web of life. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Team H.E.D. [Human Ecology Design] Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. Lara Greden, Ph.D. Javier Arbona, Ph.D. scholar |
| Discovery NEWS: Houses Woven Out of Trees Proposed By Tracy Staedter |
| Scholastic NEWS: Living in the Trees By Gail Hennessey |
| Technology Review: Home & Garden By Tracy Staedter |
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| The Boston Globe: MIT plants seeds of a new kind of house By Carolyn Johnson |
| Popular Science: Grow your second home By Gregory Mone |
| NEWS on Fab Tree Hab |
| Harvard University Center for the Environment Speaker: Mitchell Joachim, GSD Green Design |
| Sundance Channel: the Green, "Big Ideas For A Small Planet" episode -Build- w/ Fab Tree Hab.. |
| Newsweek: Terreform: Building Houses Out of Living Trees By Linda Stern |
| Copyright (c) 1997- 2007 Mitchell Joachim GNU Free Documentation License. |
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| The Hour on CBC, "Water this Segment!"
Is This A Good Idea?: Fab Tree Hab By Hilary Doyle, Oct 26, 2007. |
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