MIT Spectrum

Beyond Green Design by Mary Speare Mitchell Joachim, an MIT architect, says people may one day grow their houses instead of building them. MIT Spectrum, Spring 2007, Vol. XVIII No. IX p. 10 http://web.mit.edu/giving/spectrum/spring07/green-design.htm

Global Warming Burnout

I guess you can't really have bad press. This sardonic reporter mentions our work for Manhattan appearing on Sundance. He also seems to loath Hollywood chatter on climate change. Odd thing, he is not entirely off...

Brendan Bernhard, "Global Warming Burnout," The New York Sun, April 25, 2007.

http://www.nysun.com/article/53104?page_no=2

"Tonight's episode, "Build," is about three kinds of housing: prefab homes, or "sustainable modular houses built in a factory"; more traditional multifamily homes, newly outfitted with bamboo floors, recycled carpets, geothermal heating, etc., and "growing homes," which are a bit more futuristic. Some appear to be giant beehives encased in trees. Mitchell Joachim, a graduate of MIT, displays an architectural model of what a "100% self-sufficient" Lower Manhattan will look like 300 years from now. I am here to tell you it will look like a plate of spaghetti garnished with multicolored golf balls. If someone offers you eternal life, do not accept."

Metropolis Magazine Highlights Offices

180 Varick Street A look at the work spaces inside New York City’s infamous design address. By Stephen Zacks, April 18, 2007. This photo is labeled correctly in the actual print publication of Metropolis and in various other third party blogs such as Archidose: http://archidose.blogspot.com/2007/08/180-varick-street.html

The picture shows Mitchell Joachim and Makoto as Terreform. Directly on the other side of the room is a different office.

"The office building at 180 Varick Street in Manhattan’s West Village is sometimes sarcastically referred to as an architecture ghetto. It’s filled with studios, each of them packed with the mundane objects and tools that make up the working life of today’s designer."

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2616

LES from SCRATCH: NY Press

"LES FROM SCRATCH"
Architects re-imagine the city for the next century
By Jerry Portwood
New York Press
Vol. 20, No.16, pp. 14-16, April 18-24, 2007.
http://www.nypress.com/20/16/news&columns/feature3.cfm

Not Another Green Issue
by Kari Milchman
Fab Tree Hab images

Car Body Design: Transology

Transology: Reinventing The Wheel
by Mitchell Joachim, Axel Kilian, William J. Mitchell
http://www.carbodydesign.com/detail.php?id=742

BIG Ideas for a Small Planet

See TERREFORM and Fab Tree Hab on the Sundance Channel: 'Big Ideas For A Small Planet'. episode -Build- April 24, 9:00PM.

Green Building Press

The Ultimate Green Building Fab Tree Hab 28 March 2007 http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1591

World House Radio

Institute without Boundaries, World House Project Fab Tree Hab construction system Interview by Sarah Tranum download podcast: http://www.worldhouseradio.blogspot.com/

Fab Tree Hab in Cobouw NL

"Levend Boomhuis" by Irene de Bel Technical editor http://www.cobouw.nl/

Welcome Maria Aiolova to Terreform

Maria Aiolova received her Master in Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her Bachelor in Architecture from University of Sofia, Bulgaria and the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. She also holds Professional Degree in Architecture from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Maria has a number of winning competitions including first place in the CHARLES/MGH STATION Design Competition, Boston and the Izmir Post District International Urban Design Competition in Izmir, Turkey.  In addition to her diverse design work, Maria has been a visiting critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design and Boston Architectural Center.
http://www.aiolova.com/pages/index.aspx

Science Donga, Korea (cover)

Green Car
By Mitchell Joachim
DongaScience.com
Lee, Hyun-Kyeong
Seoul, Korea
Issue #03, March 2007.

Harvard University Center for the Environment Speaker Series

ECOTRANSOLOGY: Integrated Design for Urban Mobility Harvard Graduate School + Green Design group Mitchell Joachim PAST EVENT Friday, Mar 2, 200712:00p - 1:00p http://environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64796240

Nat and Drew in the Morning Z95

Today: Live Radio with

Nat and Drew

http://www.z95.com/

1:30pm EST

Dr. Joachim: Fab Tree Hab + Ecological Cities

Canadian Media on Fab Tree Hab

TV: Fab Tree Hab project and interview featured on CTV, Canada AM today. 8:30am http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam CKNW Radio: Nightline BC with Michael Smyth http://cknw.com/ Peter Kim Assistant Producer/Operator The World Today & Nightline BC Newspaper: Grow your own home: 'Fab tree hab' Abode sprouts from a few seeds, is good for the planet Chris Lackner, CanWest News Service Vancouver Sun online Ottawa Citizen, p.A13 Published: Thursday, March 08, 2007.

NASA Rover

NASA Extreme EXPeditionary Architecture

Guillermo Trotti, Dava J. Newman, Mitchell Joachim, Einar Thorsteinn, Santiago Alfaro, Shaun Modi, et. al.

http://trottistudio.blogspot.com/ (EXP-Arch): Mobile, Adaptable Systems for Space and Earth Exploration (PI: Trotti & Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.)

MIT Lecture: March 9th

Computation Group Lecture Series Department of Architecture, MIT Friday, March 9th, Room 3-133, 12:30 Please be there on time if you are attending MITCHELL JOACHIM Ecotransology: Ecology + Mobility + Space

NY Times: Parking as a Destination

February 25, 2007 Design Parking as a Destination By PHIL PATTON New York Times, Sunday The Smart Cities project of the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has suggested a variety of possible visions of future parking. Smart parking places could signal their availability electronically to passing motorists. Ryan Chin, Mitchell Joachim and other researchers at the Media Lab propose to redesign vehicles to make them easier to park — the spatial demands of parking could be reduced by six to eight times, they argue, with small cars that nest together like grocery carts. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/automobiles/25PARK.html?pagewanted=all

Pamphlet Architecture 29 Honorable Mention

Please see all Pamphlet Architecture 29 winners: http://www.papress.com/pamphletarchitecture/PA29winnersannounced.html

MIT + Ferrari at Maranello, Italy

Interior Design Magazine w/ Fab Tree Hab

Tree/House
Soon, it may take just seeds and water to expand a house. Architects Mitchell Joachim and Javier Arbona, engineer Lara Greden, and horticulture company Plantware make up the green-thinking team that's experimenting with self-grafting trees such as elms to weave the Fab Tree Hab concept, with a lattice of woody vines forming exterior walls. Growing a two-story, water-recycling eco retreat should take five years.
by Craig Kellogg
Interior Design, p. 48, January 1, 2007
http://www.interiordesign.net/id_article/CA6411116/id?stt=001

Climate Commons at The Institute of Contemporary Art

Climate Commons is a conversation. Fourteen people from a wide range of fields post weekly about their work on climate change, sustainability and/or the Arctic. Its a collective interdisciplinary look at what our environment is facing today. Climate Commons is part of Jane D. Marsching’s project: Arctic Listening Post Currently on view at The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston

Auto-Free NY Talk

Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 6 to 8pm: "Soft Cars and Transology" Mitchell Joachim, Executive Director, Terreform Terreform is a Manhattan-based nonprofit design collaborative concerned with ecological principles in the urban environment. Auto-Free 104 Washington St., Manhattan Alliance for Downtown New York

Discovery Channel series FutureCar

Four episodes: The Extremes, The Body, The Fuel, and The Brain, will on Discovery Channel -February 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 8 pm ET/PT. An interview with Mitchell Joachim is featured in 3 shows: Brain, Body, and Extremes. Footage of the cars are in all episodes. Please visit the website at: FutureCar

Archiworld: Architecture Competition Annual VIII

PeristalCity Architecture Competition Annual VIII 2007 pp. 120-123 Lily Choi ARCHIWORLD Co.,Ltd http://archiworld-pa.com/main.htm

Transmaterial 2 with Super Cilia Skin

Transmaterial 2 out soon with Super Cilia Skin by Mitchell Joachim, Hayes Raffle, James Tichenor http://www.archinode.com/medialab3.html + see also http://transstudio.com/tm2/

Frank Gehry Building in New York City

Dr. Axel Kilian and Dr. Mitchell Joachim check out the geometry and bullet holes at Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp building by Frank O. Gehry and Partners.

Dwell Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

James Nestor, "Branching Out," Dwell, pp. 96-98, Vol. 7 No. 3. Feb. 2007. dwell.com Richard Reams + Fab Tree Hab

Smart Materials: MATscape & RiverGym projects

Smart Materials: Types, Products, Architecture by Axel Ritter Features: MATscape project with Wind Quills to generate power using piezoelectric cells and The NY River Gyms, pp. 10-11, 142, 160, Birkhauser, 2006.

Time to Grow Home, The Sunday Times

Fab Tree Hab in: "Time to grow home" by Dara Flynn The Sunday Times, UK December 03, 2006 ...But perhaps the most innovative take on the living home concept is the Fab Tree Hab, devised by a human ecology design team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For now it exists only on paper, but if it ever takes root, it could become a viable way to help save the planet. Mitchell Joachim, one of the masterminds of the project, describes the project as “extremely realistic”. The Fab Tree Hab would be indistinct from its environment and fit symbiotically into the ecosystem. A version incorporating half of its projected technology is about to be built in California... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2098-2480020,00.html

SuperCilia Skin on Interactive Architecture dot Org

Kinesthetic Informatic Interface http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/kinesthetic-informatic-interface.html Mitchell Joachim, Hayes Raffle, James Tichenor

YouTube Tree House

Inside the Ultimate Treehouse See Fab Tree Hab + Popular Science

Terreform Nonprofit Org

Terreform is a Nonprofit Organization for Philanthropic Architecture, Urban and Ecological Design  
by Mitchell Joachim  http://www.terreform.org/ more soon...

Fab Tree Hab in POPULAR SCIENCE

Gregory Mone, "Grow Your Second Home," Popular Science, pp. 38-9, Nov. 2006. image: Graham Murdoch http://www.popsci.com/popsci/treehouse

The Herald reports on: Fab Tree Hab

The Herald, UK "I wish I could grow my own house" by JAMES MORGAN Oct 2, 2006. http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/71205.html

MIT plants seeds of a new kind of house

The Boston Globe: "MIT plants seeds of a new kind of house" By Carolyn Johnson, p.C1, Mon. Sept. 25th, 2006. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/ articles/2006/09/25/mit_plants_seeds_of_a_new_kind_of_house/

Thresholds Journal Published

"River Gyms," and "PeristalCity," Thresholds Journal #32 ACCESS, MIT, 2006. http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds/

Soft Car in Frieze

Ronald Jones, “The Art Market,” Frieze, September Issue 101, p.39 2006. http://www.frieze.com/

Super Soft Future Trans

See more at: http://www.archinode.com/mitcar1oz.html

We Moved to Williamsburg!

222 Bushwick Ave #4R Brooklyn, NY 11206

Fab Tree Hab on MIT Web Spotlight

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/house.html

MIT Vehicle Design Summit (VDS)

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/vehicle-summit-0614.html http://www.vehicledesignsummit.org/ http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/06/mit_vehicle_des.html

Fab Tree Hab at CAC

Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Cincinnati Exhibition: The HOME House Project Fab Tree Hab May 06, 2006 - August 06, 2006 http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/

L'Arca PersitalCity

Agora / Dreams and Visions eVolo Skyscraper 06 Competition by Mario Antonio Arnaboldi June 2006 No. 215 pp. 48-49. PersitalCity project design images.

Technology Review article

Fab Tree Hab story "House and Garden Architects design a living home" By Tracy Staedter Technology Review June/July pp. m2-m9. http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17102