Trees are living and growing beings that are constantly in exchange with their environment, ever-evolving, repairing themselves, and changing the micro-climate of their environment. Architecture as Trees – Trees as Architecture demonstrates what it means to think and build of architecture as trees, fusing living and non-living elements into a biological-technical composite structure.
Baubotanik describes a method of building in which plant-technical composite structures are created through the interaction of technical joining and plant growth: individual plants merge to form a new, larger overall organism and technical elements grow into the plant structure. Architecture as Trees – Trees as Architecture features two inosculated trees with roots and branches. The installation also features imagery of a walkway in the treetops and a tree that is overgrowing a technical joint. Additionally, renders address issues like changing seasons and the integration of trees into the water and energy concept of a building, and themes of time and the transformation of public space.

Participants:
OLA Office for Living Architecture
Ludwig · Schönle · Rauscher
Baubotaniker · Architekten · Stadtplaner PartGmbB
Stuttgart, Germany
Ferdinand Ludwig, Daniel Schönle, Jakob Rauscher

Professorship for Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture
Technical University of Munich
Ferdinand Ludwig

Authorial Collaborators
Christoph Fleckenstein, Oliver Storz, Cornelius Hackenbracht, Studio Umschichten, Sergio Sanna, allmannwappner, Ulrich Pantle, Alexander Wäsch

Technical Collaborators
Felix Zimmermann, Philipp Endisch, IGMA University of Stuttgart, Stark Ingenieure, Transsolar, TOP Brandschutz, Carlo Scoccianti, green4cities, Christina Schmid, Kristina Pujkilović

Team Members
Sarah Sutter, Aly Elsayed, Oliver Teiml, Andreas Desuki, Lorenz Boigner, Peter Schick, Steffen Raiber

Thanks
Bruns Pflanzen-Export, TUM Gewächshauslaborzentrum Dürnast, Susanne Hackenbracht, Neue Kunst am Ried, Municipality of Nagold

Supporters
School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich