Revue internationale des forts et des industries forestires

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A prototype for a high-rise with a structure made entirely of wood, Endless Canopy is a 30-story tower covered in plants to create the illusion of an endless canopy or a vertical forest that stretches from the ground floor to the very top of the tower.

This poster is the opening poster for the TREEHOUSING International Wood Design Competition that was run by FAO and DBR | Design Build Research School on the occasion of the XIV World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa, in September 2015.The competition challenged architecture students, professional architects and designers to develop innovative and sustainable wood housing and urban building solutions.

Rising from a forest of trees, the Sky’s the Limit is an experimental modular housing tower built entirely with wooden structural elements that aims to be both functional and beautiful.

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The Vertical Village is designed as a functional and innovative wooden high-rise that provides comfortable living conditions in a large city located in a humid, subtropical climate.

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Bamboo Housing regenerates deforested areas by creating self-suf- cient housing communities that cultivate their own raw materials.

The Branching Durban project encourages an intimate relationship between residents and nature, by relying on nature’s intelligence and questioning commonly held notions of enclosed space.

The Flexi-Bach design is based on the lifecycle of a household and is intended to accommodate the evolving size of households in New Zealand where a large increase in single and double person homes is expected.

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