Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Today's weird architecture fix:

iPod is inspiration for new tower in Dubai: "iPad"

Dubai-based real estate firm Omniyat Properties plans to construct a tall building in Dubai modeled after the Apple iPod. The name of the 24-story tower: iPad.


Fab Tree Hab

In congruence with ecology as the guiding principal, this living home is designed to be nearly entirely edible so as to provide food to some organism at each stage of its life cycle. While inhabited, the home's gardens and exterior walls continually produce nutrients for people and animals. As a direct contributer to the ecosystem it supports an economy comprised of truly breathing products not reconstituted or processed materials. Imagine a society based on slow farming trees for housing structure instead of the industrial manufacture of felled timber.

3 comments:

Blue Sky Hunter said...

Seems cool, but I don't know if I'd want all kinds of creatures feeding off of my home. It reminds me of a "less cool" version of Paul Laffoley's plant house. He's an artist I know very little about, but heard of from the "Disnfo TV" DVD.

Mac said...

Paul Laffoley -- wow. The man might be an alien. (And I mean that in a good way.)

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