TREE HABITATS
by Jill Fehrenbacher
No longer just for Ewoks, treehouses have come a long way from the ramshackle plywood thingy your dad pieced together for you in the backyard. A number of architects are taking their inspiration from nature to create beautiful, comfortable, and contemporary dwellings in the trees. Landliving has a great overview of some modern treehouses, from architecture student Lukasz Kos’s Ontario treehouse, to Joel Sherman’s award-winning elevated Steel Tree House in Lake Tahoe, CA, to Marcio Kogan’s tree-top canopy BR House in Brazil.
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The Tahoe house is NOT a treehouse it is just “in the trees”. I would have thought a true treehouse would use a tree or trees a part of the structural support. Obviously there are technical difficulties usng something that is growing but that is the whole point I would ahve thought.