Vegetable architecture arises as an option to reinterpret the city buildings and integrate natural elements that allow us to feel in contact with natural spaces, modifying the image we are used to seeing in cities built with prefabricated materialshomogeneous structures and similar colors in all Apprtes. It is also one Excellent option to convert excess carbon dioxide into oxygen and improve our health. We tell you its origins and characteristics, so that you identify the plant architecture.
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Where plant architecture arises
Some of the oldest Evidence of plant architecture He is over 500 years old. This can be checked with Bridges built by the War-Khasis —A tribe of Meghalaya located in India – with the help of Palma de Areca trunks, cut in half and holes. With them they created a rigid platform crossing the channel to guide the roots to the opposite shore. To theintertwine a firm structure created by living roots that over time they strengthen, grow and are able to support the weight of 50 people at the same time; The residents of the tribe were waiting for 10 to 15 years for the bridge to be fully functional.
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What is required for plant architecture?
The manipulation of the natural materials used has evolved, but the concept remains.Use natural living materials for the creation and improvement of any structure. For the realization of any construction with plant architecture, collective work is done With the help of botanists that advise and instruct with the manipulation and functioning of the species (of plants and animals) selected to work, as well as helps with grafts for modification of form and treatments for living species. Among the materials to be used, You can opt for cork, straw, algae, live plants To create walls or facades, structures with trees and other intertwined species.