A group could research this concept genetically and a project could be initiated so groundwork for this idea becomes reality.  It might take along time to get somthing like this into the works, but hopefully that much sooner with shared interest.  Please see the bottom of the blog for contact info and contact me if interested.

 

 

One "wood" lay a seed foundation using biotic green technology to grow living tree dwellings.  The inside walls bark, within reach, could be a composite of cinnamon,eucalyptus and other aromatic barks, while the outside bark could be dark green evergreen cactus.  A unified genetically pleached branch (see arborsmith.com for defintion of pleach) or large appropriately placed leaves would serve as a roof.  These leaves could be the width of a palm (about 2 feet) and length of a platano (about four feet long) overlapping each other so rain water could drain off.  One could use the opaque portions of varigated leaves to form semi diaphanous windows that would allow light into the living dwelling.  Massive cotton pods stemming from the interior of the home could be used as beds and chairs that were "homegrown".  Likewise cork could be used as flooring that could continually grow from the walls encompassing the floor.  One could also have hollow drainage trunks that allowed water to drain from the roof to the roots below.  The roots could be engineered in such a way as to slope away from the living walls using the genetics of an "upside down" portabella and other mushrooms made to manifest as root structure to "cup" liquid and nutrients to provide maximum absorption of said nutrients.   So guttation to a nepethes truncata or rafflesia would be energentically feasible.  The upper "trunk", "branches" and large leaves out of reach would contain dark rich evergreen aromatics such as; mint, basil, anise, and pine. One would have food producing plants in the makeup of the "flora home" to provide a nourishing liquid food source.  Flora homes could tap the photosynthetic energy production and secrete a liquid grain, legume, nut, seed, and fruit matrix that was available via guttation in a rafflesia or nepenthes truncata if one needed nourishment.  Using the genetic material of all the fruit and vegetables, aromatic herbs, plants and trees such as: baobab (for life span and girth), bristlecone pine (life span), and redwood (life span, height, insect resistance and fungal resistance), one would have a food and oxygen producing shelter that could live several thousand years and grow to functionality rapidly using Kudzu dna which grows a foot a day or seaweed which grows two feet a day (in the right nutrient medium). 

Tree Types and qualities

Ficus magnolioides - natural pleaching ability
Ficus-virens - pleaching ability, canopies that grow up to 4 acres.

Giant bamboo Dendrocalamus giganteus - rapid growth, chambered insulated walls, hollow living pipes

California Kelp Macrocystis pyrifera - rapid growth nearly 2 feet a day

Cactus opuntias Lophophore Williamsii-peyote saguaro- evergreen "wall" inflorescence

Carnegiea gigantean- green "bark" broad branch inflorescence, drought tolerance

Redwood Sequoia sempervirens -age, height, rot resistance soft padded bark for bedding

Ficus religiosa- crown and root spread, natural pleaching ability

Bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva -age

Cork-tree Phellodendron - soft padding for under foot

Cinnamon Cinnamomum verum- aromatic bark

Baobab-age, breadth

Chilean alerce Fitzroya cupressoides dated at 3622 years old

Kudzu Pueraria Montana-rapid growth rate 1 foot a day

Grasses- rapid fruit production

Feel free to leave comments about any tree or plant qualities anyone is aware of...

Plants and trees have beeen shown to grow better when they are talked to or music is played for them which proves a kind of consciousness. Perhaps if one quieted themselves and listened to the trees and spoke with the trees one could build this kind of building.

See paradisical future blog for images