TREE IN A HOUSE

Who hasn't ever dreamed of owning a treehouse as a child? Most of our 8 years old selves did, and some of us still do (Me included!).

This past month, we have seen the architectural and design internet bubble be wowed by the Kazakh Architect Aibek Almasov, who's basically taken matters to the next level by proposing a "Tree in a house", a tubular four-story glass structure around a tree creating a unique living space.

Credits: Kazakh Architect Aibek Almasov

The design is eco-friendly and intended to create a place of harmonic interaction between Nature and Humans. Transparent solar panels wrapping the glass walls will provide energy, water is to be supplied by purified rainwater and the tree, the protagonist and essence of this living space, is to provide oxygen and life to the structure around it.

 The design was launched in 2013 but lacked funding to get it off the paper. It has recently sparkled a new found interested in the media all over the world, and a crowd-funding page created for the project with hopes of the first unit being constructed in 2017 in a forest somewhere in Kazakhstan.

Really inspiring project!  On the other hand so much 'transparency' also has its drawbacks and I personally believe that this would work best as a public or working space rather a family home.  Unless a little more privacy and areas with dimmable light (for sleeping )could be incorporated in the design.