Grow Your Own Building,

is one way to have a new home,

We mentioned some time ago about growing your own furniture, well German designer Ferdinand Ludwig is taking that idea one stage further, grow your own building!

 many of his designs will take years or even decades to fully unfold as his buildings grow,

 a pioneer of what he calls ‘Baubotanik’ (think: Bauhaus using botanical techniques), Ludwig’s living plant constructions were inspired in part by native tribes that grow living bridges out of trees over time,

 His largest project yet in Nagold, Germany, was a multistory structure made up over over 100 trees slowly combined into a single organism, coaxed into place with a steel framework that will eventually be redundant, the lattice of interconnected tree trunks and branches ends up forming its own self-supporting truss system,

 even now, though, the slow-growing ‘building’ makes for a shady and cool space in the summer, through each season, of course, it changes with the natural cycles of spring, summer, fall and winter,

so will this plan for the future take off?

well he thinks so if you watch the video.