A 100 year plan to grow a circle of 10 Japanese cherry trees into an hourglass shaped structure to be used as a study retreat. Trees can be shaped, sculpted, trained to grow into specific shapes, and even grafted together into a lattice, but this concept takes things to the next level.
The project is being grown on the Politecnico di Milano campus, and is designed by a group of Swedish architects called Visiondivision. The plan is to shape the trees as they grow, tying them to create a central scaffold to give an upper level, then growing the branches out to form “walls.” They even intend to weave two of the trees together to form a staircase.
Félix Édouard Vallotton aka Félix Vallotton (Swiss, 1865-1925, b. Lausanne, Switzerland) - Sunset in the Haze, 1911 Paintings: Oil on Canvas, Private Collection
