One might research this concept genetically and a project might 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 might lay a seed foundation using biotic green technology to grow living tree dwellings.  The inside walls bark, within reach, might be a composite of cinnamon,eucalyptus and cactus to provide oxygen, while the outside bark might be dark green evergreen cactus.  A unified genetically pleached branch (see arborsmith.com for defintion of pleach) or large appropriately placed leaves might 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 might use the opaque portions of varigated leaves to form semi diaphanous windows that allow light into the living dwelling.  Big cotton pods stemming from the interior of the home might be used as beds and chairs.  Likewise cork could be used as a flooring that could continually grow from the floor.  If rain was an issue one might also have hollow drainage trunks that allowed water to drain from the roof to the roots below (like bamboo without the internal structural segments).  The roots might be oriented like an upside down mushroom cap that might "cup" and collect liquid and dissolved soil nutrients to provide maximum absorption of said nutrients.  Guttation to a nepenthes truncata or rafflesia might be feasible?  One could have all the food producing plants in the makeup of the living plant home to provide a nourishing liquid food source if one got thirsty.  Said liquid grain, legume, nut, seed, and fruit matrix could be specifically designed at the genetic level for the individual who was thirsty to give the most efficient food possible.  Using the genetic material of all flora such as: baobab (for life span and girth), bristlecone pine (life span), and redwood (life span, height, insect resistance and fungal resistance), one could have a food and oxygen producing shelter that could lived several thousand years and might grow to functionality rapidly using Kudzu dna which grows a foot a day or seaweed which grows two feet a day (if the right nutrient mediumwas used).  Bioluminescent fungi might be used at the cellular level in conjunction with chloroplast to give a living light.

Plant Types and Qualities

The totem pole cactus - An evergreen cactus without spines

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

Ficus religiosa- crown and root spread, natural pleaching ability

Bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva -age

Cork-tree Phellodendron - cork

Cinnamon Cinnamomum verum- antioxidants

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

leave comments about any plant qualities to add to the list...

maybe something like this will exist hopefully something even less dense.