Building Around Trees
by TreeHugger on 05.19.05
Building around trees does require ingenuity, but really, that's the coolness of it. Building in coordination with them provides you with a starting point for some inspired designs. Perhaps I am subtly influenced to write this by the fact that the forested lot next to me was recently razed to the ground, only to be replanted with trees after a house was built. Here are some tips for building around trees by Clemson University. [by Justin Thomas]
where did that photo come from?
The photo is from this book I have called the Complete Deck Book...they have some really nice decks in there.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0376010878/qid=1116539846/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-0639677-1762402
Been lurking for a while, but your comment on forest lots brought back some of my more painful adolecent memories.
My family's lived in CT for fifty years, and up until about 10 years ago houses were built in a way that embraced the lots they occupied, trees and all. It was one of the reasons you lived there -- all those trees.
Then the stock market exploded and the mcmansion crazy hit. Now you drive through nieghborhoods and violently struck by these clear cut horrors. And ironicly, rather than emphasizing a house's architecture, it just highlights how violently awful it is.
Sad.
thanks justin, the trees make such a difference. james cutler has also designed some beautiful houses built with respect to trees.
http://www.cutler-anderson.com/
Brandon,
Yeah I hear that. It seems no matter where I live in the world I'm always encountering the cleared lots. Egads.
Hijiki - nice architecture indeed right up my alley.
To: TreeHugger
How much space should be left around a fully grown (mature) oak tree in the middle approx. of a deck, to provide sufficient irrigation?
Thanks,
James Spong
Rome, Georgia