Arboreal Architecture Prototype

Fab Tree Hab: accurately controlled living plant geometry to form dwellings.

Just as the modern biotechnology revolution owes its existence to the intelligence in ecosystems at the molecular level, sustainable technologies for homes can also benefit from biological, natural systems; however, starting at the molecular scale is not necessary. Rather, as the intention of this design explores, lumber maintained in its macro, living form becomes a superstructure. Templates, cut from 3D computer files control the plant growth in the early stages. After a time the templates are removed and reused in a new home.
- New 3D model fabrication with Edward Ward.

A True Homegrown Investment: Fab Tree Hab

"A True Homegrown Investment" by: Marie Langhout, NuWire Investor, Feb. 19, 2008. Can’t afford to build a house? Grow one. http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/blogs/thebrinktank/2008/02/true-homegrown-investment.html

High Gloss/ Social Conscience at SCOPE

Louise Blouin Media (publishers of Art+Auction, Modern Painters, Culture+Travel) is presenting a discussion panel at the SCOPE Art Fair on Saturday 29th March between 5pm – 6pm. High Gloss/ Social Conscience participants: Craig Kellogg, editor at Interior Design James Zemaitis, Vice President of the Design Dept. Sotheby’s Rick Cook, Cook + Fox Architects Morgan Falconer, writer Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Partner at Terreform Susan Morris, editor in chief of Modern Painters, moderator. at The SCOPE Pavilion, Lincoln Center. http://www.scope-art.com/home.php?section=home

Synergy Conference

Synergy: The 7th Annual Sustainable Living Conference The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington May 23rd-24th, 2008. Dr. Mitchell Joachim of Terreform: Ecotransology - Collapse of Nature www.evergreen.edu/synergy

01SJ: Global Festival of Art on the Edge

Earthtimes - London, UK: Terreform (Mitchell Joachim) will be showcased w/ Jane Marsching Future North: Ecotarium - An Observatory of Nature’s Collapse SAN JOSE, CA -- 02/04/08 -- ZER01, organizers of 01SJ, a Global Festival of Art on the Edge, today announced plans for its second biennial festival here, June 4-8. 01SJ will feature transformative and provocative new works from world-renowned artists and performers at the cross-section of contemporary art, technology, and culture. The five-day Festival will incorporate exhibitions, films, concerts, performances, happenings, and nightlife occurring throughout downtown San Jose's parks, public streets, museums, theaters, and clubs. http://www.01sj.org/ http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/zer01-invites-the-world-to-experience-art-on-the-edge,269760.shtml

Transmaterial 2: Super Cilia Skin

Super Cilia Skin project inside:
"Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment," Blaine Brownell,
Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.
http://www.amazon.com/Transmaterial-Materials-Redefine-Physical-Environment/dp/1568987226/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201387330&sr=8-1
Super Cilia Skin:
http://www.archinode.com/medialab3.html
MIT Team:
Mitchell Joachim, Hayes Raffle, James Tichenor

NEW Terreform Website Launched

www.terreform.org

de Architect: Almere Hout w/ MUST, NL

Harry den Hartog, "Getemd wild wonen," de Architect, NL, pp. 67, No. 6 June 2007. http://dearchitect.sdu.nl/do/welkom MUST: http://www.must.nl

TATLIN news: Terreform

Vladimir Belogolovsky, "Terreform,"
Tatlin News, Russia, pp. 70-75, No.4 (40) 48 2007.
http://www.tatlin.ru/index.php?page=about&id=100113

Marie Claire: Fab Tree Hab

Marie Claire, Deco, "Fab Tree Hab,"
By Ioanna Michelakou, Greece, p.101, Nov. 2007.

Vision Magazine: MIT City Cars

Vision, "Return to Intelligence - MIT City Car,"
Sissia Cao, pp. 188-193, China, No. 08, August 2007.
http://youthvision.cn/

Architects League of Northern New Jersey Lecture

AIA chapter ALNNJ Annual League Arthur Davis Lecture Terreform, Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Nov. 15, 2007. http://alnnj.org/

Made in India (Architectural Design)

Made in India (Architectural Design) by Kazi Ashraf

"A Trip to India," p. 84-89, Nov./Dec. 2007

Eco tree houses come of age

Fab Tree Hab on Smart Planet UK Eco tree houses come of age SmartPlanet.com - London,UK Innovative designers are creating tree houses that live and 'breathe,' like the Fab Tree Hab. It uses high-tech computer modelling and ancient techniques ... http://www.smartplanet.com/news/leisure/10000032/eco-tree-houses-come-of-age.htm

CBC TV: Fab Tree Hab

The Hour on CBC, "Water this Segment!"
Is This A Good Idea?: Fab Tree Hab
By Hilary Doyle, Oct 26, 2007.

http://goodidea.cbc.ca/2007/10/a_blossoming_home.htm

Gang of Green: DigitALL Magazine Heroes

TERREFORM, THE ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND ARCHITECTURE FIRM OF MICHAEL SORKIN AND MITCHELL JOACHIM, IS RIPPING UP THE PAVEMENT OF URBANPLANNING "...the ecological research, urban planning, and architecture firm of Michael Sorkin and Mitchell Joachim. These two architects’ work is full of epic ambitions and fantastical ideas, including city plans based on total urban self-sufficiency, houses made of growing trees, and soft, sheep-like cars that scrub the atmosphere clean with every drive. Of course, most architects have drawers full of unrealized blueprints. But Terreform’s architecture of ecological engagement sacrifices any pretense of pragmatism in order to reach for a realm of unbridled, futuristic innovation..." Craig Bromberg, Samsung, p. 10/48 Fall 2007. http://www.samsung.com/Features/BrandMagazine/magazinedigitall/2007_fall/heroes_02.htm

Relax - Interiors for Human Wellness

The Human-Powered River Gym project

by Mitchell & Douglas Joachim

is published within:

"Relax - Interiors for Human Wellness"

with Karim Rashid, Anneke Bokern, Joeri Bruyninckx, Tim Groen, Sarah Martín Pearson, Shonquis Moreno, Stephan Ott, Chris Scott and Masaaki Takahashi.

Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (November 2007)

http://www.amazon.com/Relax-Interiors-Wellness-Anneke-Bokern/dp/3764383925/ref=sr_1_2/105-5757793-2651658?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192567361&sr=1-2

CNET Extreme Tree Houses: Fab Tree Hab

Extreme tree houses CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA. Future-forward designers are concocting tree houses that live and "breathe," such as the Fab Tree Hab. It uses high-tech computer modeling and ancient ...See all stories on this topic http://www.news.com/2300-11395_3-6210710-1.html

GSAPP course: Tilling Education

A4746 Tilling Education: An Eco Aesthetic Approach. Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Dr. Mitchell Joachim http://www.arch.columbia.edu/index.php?pageData=8882/23/4/3235/

Fab Tree Hab in El Periódico de Catalunya magazine

Ana Sanchez, "Casas Con Vida Propia," El Periódico, Dominical, p.14, no. 258, Aug. 8, 2007. http://www.elperiodico.com/

Southern Housing Excellance magazine: Fab Tree Hab

"Grow your own: Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab takes ‘green’ architectural design into the heart of the environment by creating a structure that is in itself alive and an integral part of the ecosystem. Think organic engineering, utilising living systems to create both form and function – and perhaps one day a whole new breed of gardening-come-home-improvement television shows." Monday, 20 August 2007, UK. http://www.southern-housing.co.uk/features/the-earthships-have-landed-885-14.html

Fab Tree Hab in Grazia Italy

Stefania Uberti, "La Mia Casa Sugli Alberi,"
Grazia, p. 24, no. 32, Aug. 14, 2007.
http://grazia.blog.it/

Fab Tree Hab in Immobilien Osterreich

Dietmar Treiber, "Das Haus lebt, atmet und wachst," Immobilien, Osterreich, p.12, Fri. Aug. 10th, 2007.

Soft Car in D la Repubblica delle Donne

Erica Baldi, "Soft Car ," D la Repubblica delle Donne, No. 555, June 30, 2007.

Fab Tree Hab in DIE WELT

Dietmar Treiber, "Wachsendes Haus," Die Welt, pp. IM1, IM3, June 23, 2007 http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article968263/Wachsendes_Haus.html

National Geographic Kids: Fab Tree Hab

Cathy Lu, “Green House,” National Geographic Kids, p. 22, Jun./ Jul. 2007. http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Fab Tree Hab on BauNetz

"MIT entwickelt wachsende Häuser" (MIT develops increasing houses) http://www.baunetz.de/db/news/?news_id=84035

Panorama Magazine Italy: Fab Tree Hab

http://www.panorama.it/ Alberi a forma di casa p.254, N.22, May 31, 2007.

City of Sound + Postopolis!: Mitchell Joachim

Notes on the talk at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York: link here: http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2007/06/postopolis_mitc.html

Tree house living, the next green thing?

CNET News.com: Fab Tree Hab http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9724481-7.html

Spa-De Magazine: MATscape + Fab Tree Hab

Yoshiko Kasuga, "Human Nest,"
SPA-DE Space & Design ~ International Review of Interior Design
Vol. 7, p. 46-48, 2007.
SPA-DE―Space & Design~International Review of Interior Design (Vol.7)

Postopolis Talk on U Tube

see video for Postopolis at Storefront for Art and Architecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VWD3-07Us or http://www.youtube.com/storefrontgallery

Mediaweek: Living Home

Does Green Grow Green For Media? Richard Brunelli Media Week, MAY 14, 2007. "The series portrays green-skewing designers, products and processes that, potentially, can transform the everyday lives of viewers. Interviewees range from professional race car driver and ethanol advocate Jeff Simmons to an MIT grad named Mitchell Joachim, who is building a home grown from living trees, to a "guerrilla gardener" named Heather Flores, who champions green spaces in poor New York City neighborhoods..." http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/departments/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003584537

P.M. Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

Bio-Bau (Biobuilding)
Aus Baumstämmen ein Haus flechten
(From Trunks Twist a House)
by Wolfgang C. Goede
P.M. p. 14, June 2007.
http://www.pm-magazin.de/de/heftartikel/artikel_id1999.htm

Newsweek: Fab Tree Hab

"Terreform: Building Houses Out of Living Trees"
Newsweek, May 28, 2007 by Linda Stern.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18685383/site/newsweek/?from=rss#storyContinued

Focus Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

"Grun & Gut: Baumhaus," Robert Thielicke, Focus, p.110, No. 18, April 30, 2007 http://www.focus.de/

Home Wellness Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

"Vivere Eco,"
by Sara Lisa Di Mario
p.153-55, n.01 April-May 2007.
http://www.homewellness.it/

Designnews.com: MIT Car

MIT Moves Forward with Smart Cities and Stackable Cars by Sean Snyder, Associate Editor -- Design News, May 15, 2007. "The designers behind Concept Cars have re-evaluated the use and function of cars in the city with new designs that remove the drive train and put precedence on robotic wheels. “We reinvented the wheel, or actually, we rethought it,” says Mitchell Joachim, former MIT student and current Smart Cities committee member." http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6442404.html

Terreform at Postopolis! May 30th at 6:30pm

Postopolis!
at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Featuring BLDGBLOG, City of Sound, Inhabitat, and Subtopia
Postopolis! is a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design. Four bloggers, from four different cities, will host a series of live discussions, interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and other presentations, and fuse the informal energy and interdisciplinary approach of the architectural blogosphere with the immediacy of face to face interaction.
http://storefrontnews.org/exhibitions/upcoming.html

Terreform Future NYC movie

Link: NY City MPEG movie file

http://www.terreform.org/terreform_st.mp4

New Yorker: "the Green" advertising

The Green with Robert Redford on the Sundance Channel: "...MIT genius Mitchell Joachim creates a spectacular futuristic living space with his Fab Tree Hab living house, made from trees". The New Yorker, p. 14, April 30, 2007,

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