why not just grow a house?

If you framed a house with live plants you would have constant issues

Think about it. Everytime the plants grow and shift, even slightly, the walls will become misaligned or pressured. If you used drywall it would disastrous unless you did something like hang it on steel frames

 

That's why you genetically engineer a new plant to be a living, growing, breathing, house.

This theory has been around for decades.

 

Fuck trees, we should make houses out of dead people. Embalm em and nail em together. Why should the body not be useful after the soul has escaped?

 

nah...

I am dead serious about all of this. I've seen it already happen. I know it's the future. I wish I knew more about the science, I've just had the visions.

 

you'd shingle the materials, or use more living materials, for instance, plate mail, if you pull the structural members apart, the layers still overlap, it's a non-issue

lumber already expands and contracts, and shifts under all kinds of circumstances. you'd just have to plan for it

not to mention, you could eventually discourage further growth, think about the bonsai tree, it stops growing upward because upward growth is discouraged.

 

because you don't need to, it's over complicated, and would only lead to more tract housing.

 

Some of the first settlers of my city lived in a hollowed out gum tree with an oversized trunk. They put a door and fireplace in and everything, amazing. I have seen the tree, the house is gone but you can walk into the living room

 

Hemp grows a lot like bamboo, without pesticides or fertilizer, grows in all regions, and the fibers can be constructed into boards with the tensile strength of high-tensile steel

Trees take years to grow, southern regions can produce 3 hemp crops per year

If you ask me, it will probably be the future of building materials among many other things

 

hey, I think any plant that can be used should be, the way things are going now, ridiculous.

 

I've always wanted to build myself a cob house...Course I'd have to live in a warm climate that is all year round but I'm doin' it...

 

those are lovely. I would love to work with cob, as well.

 

CUTE.
WANT.

 

I did imagine. I then thought that a cabin would be quicker easier and better.

Not quite sure how much more fire retardant it would be.

But, if the home was more like a huge egg shape with properties (pardon the pun) of a behive (catacombs).
It could be a good basis for modular homes.
Nothing fancy or complicated, just simple straightforward large spaces.
I'm sure that is far more do-able than Stalks pictures (no offence).
They look like Michelangelo's helicopter designs; nice on paper but probably would never get off the ground (pardon that pun too).

 

i dont know if someone already mentioned but this is the shit : http://earthship.net/ my dream

 

plants are full of water, unless it's been a really dry year )and you'd probably be irigating your house) wildfires almost never start in most plants.

 

That makes sense.
Not sure how eco friendly they would be having to constantly maintain them.
But small beer in comparison to normal homes I Imagine.

 

not to mention you would be supporting ecological diversity, as it would just be smarter to use plants that would grow better in the area. I mean, I don't see too many palm trees here, but thre are many plants here that honestly shouldn't be.

same almsot everywhere you go.

 

The only down side is there is always groups that want to retain diversity (even for plants that honestly should not be there.)
You would have a fight on your hands, Dave

 

do anyway, the diversity is already there, this would force more people to examine it, and look at it from an educated standpoint, and why it should not be there. yes, a properly diversified ecosystem is much more durable, but if some things are added that don't belong, hell can be wrought. and even if some people choose to have a house with some bad plants, more people would understand why that was a threat, and ordinances could go into effect, etc.

honestly, this might be where we are headed. at least one of the possible routes.

I'd like to see a system in which cob, hay bale (well, things like hemp panel, but philosophically hay bale) aerogel, steel framing, and earthship type recycling construction can be made to work in concert

obviously, no architectural solution is the answer for everywhere. solutions that should be in place in new orleans would not work in kansas, or colorado. and things that would work in shanghai would no work in washington DC, but the more opttions we have, and the more people look at these options, and accept diversity in building technologies, the better we are.

 

All true, Dave.
But you are asking for a lot with the re-education of people.
Too heavy handed and it would come across as, well, like you were an ecomaniac.

It would be good for new housing in specific areas of natural beauty.
I don't really wish to see already maintained Towns/Cities becoming something they are not.
But, on the outskirts it would work just as well.
Lets not forget the infrastructure needs to be added as well.

Plus, in developing countries, where perhaps it would be cheaper and more tolerable, as families already tend to live in large open spaces, anyway.
Unlike here where I'm sure people would ask for all sorts of crap they did not need (A den etc.)