•  co-create with existing young Sycamores, Tulip Trees, Staghorn Sumacs, and others, to design an Arbortecture Exterior Ecosystem skin surrounding AiRR Studio to support a variety of plants, fungi, and animals; including edibles and medicinals for humans

 

•  inspired by Office for Living Architecture (OLA)’s Plane Tree Cube:

 

https://www.o-l-a.eu/project/platanenkubus-nagold/

 

Baubotanik shapes living tree branches into building facades (video by Kirsten Dirksen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdcfiLfgUY

 

•  Fast-growing American Sycamores (Platanus occidentalis)* have volunteered in front of AiRR Studio, and are found throughout SiSa’s acreage, especially in the lower, increasingly wet topography. These are closely related to the London plane trees (Platanus hispanica) utilized by OLA for their Plane Tree Cube project.

 

* Note the growth of volunteer Sycamores, from imperceptible in 2020 (photo below) to approximately eight feet high in 2022 (photo above), almost exactly two years later. Note also the existing Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) in both photos.

 

•  In winter, Sycamore seed pods appear as ornaments on the bare, creamy white branches of older trees.

•  These seeds could be ceremonially collected to establish a Sycamore nursery for a living Arbortecture Exterior Ecosystem, surrounding AiRR Studio.

•  accommodate for Hempcrete Condo Cladding

•  endeavor to design construction processes where all building renovations and additions will inherently consider the well-being of each surrounding ecosystem, of which trees are frequently anchors

•  existing onsite arbor-adaptations