Using a computer-designed scaffolding system to precisely guide their ... The idea of shaping trees into usable structures goes back thousands of years. “You can find examples of this within ...

The team is calling their tree-shaping system “Botany Building,” and while it may not be the cure to climate change, it’s an incredibly interesting way to create living structures.

Wood is becoming an increasingly popular building material, but the timber is harvested mainly just from the long, straight trunks of trees ... human-made structure. The system could also work ...

While some architects have been experimenting with mushroom mycelium as a cladding material, architect Dirk Hebel and engineer Philippe Block have gone one step further – by using fungi to build ...

With the help of Envision Solar, the university is "planting" Solar Trees on the roofs of two of its parking structures to generate electricity ... UCSD, one of 10 campuses in the University of ...

Through mathematical modeling, Harne worked out that it is possible for tree-like structures to maintain ... a phenomena that allows certain mechanical systems to dissipate internal energy.