ARCHiNODE Studio, and the Fab Tree Hab - the technOrganic Future

I've seen this concept so many times before, in so many places, that I just didn't want to show it. But it's soooo cool, and today when I saw Shedworking post a YouTube video on it I just couldn't help myself. So here it is, the amazing Fab Tree Hab.




I must say, I blog about modernist houses, and yeah, I'm one of those people who love the "white box." But I really do believe that the future, the distant future that is, will be highly organic and deeply integrated with technology. We're already learning how living systems are vastly superior, how nature has solved problems that we can't yet touch, how adaptable and elegant it all is. To achieve sustainability, in the end, we'll inevitably arrive here.






Fab Tree Hab is the work of Mitchell Joachim and MIT colleagues Lara Greden and Javier Arbona. Joachim's practice, ARCHiNOD STUDIO, is firmly rooted in a brilliant vision of "architectural + urban + ecological design." I want to live in the future his work is pointing to:








Incredible. Want more? Check out the ARCHiNODE blog. Or check out Terreform, the nonprofit Joachim started with fellow architect Michael Sorkin (equally brilliant vision of an organic future) to "ascertain the consequences of fitting a project within our natural world setting."

These guys are doing radical stuff. They present a very exciting vision of the future. I wonder what it will take for us to get there, how long, how much pain before (will the world get worse before it gets better?), what will we lose, what will we give, what will we discover? I don't know, and even though I'm only in my mid-thirties I can't imagine I'll see it in my lifetime. But I know what I'm teaching my children.

From now on, I'll be on the lookout for more examples of this highly organic, technologically intertwined, vision, which I'll file in the category technOrganic Future.

Via Shedworking

Image credits - ARCHiNODE and Terreform sites