Abode in woodland – Designing a treehouse amidst the woods.

Abode in woodland – Designing a treehouse amidst the woods.

“If you want to live a peaceful life, either bring the forest to your house or your house to the forest” – Mehmet Murat ildan

As humans, we have always found a sense of comfort and affinity towards nature. Since the beginning of civilization we started building homes along the riverside, and do it even today. The ways of connecting have certainly changed considerably with time but our affinity towards nature hasn’t. We still feel the same urge to go out and connect with it.

As no matter how far or up we go there is one thing that doesn’t change. that nature is our prospect. And this is something we all are aware of that the proximity to this prospect has a positive physiological and psychological impact on us.

As if given a choice we all will choose a heavenly abode in the womb of nature rather than any city or urban landscape.

But this is hardly ever a matter of choice. As we don’t choose nature; we are part of it.

Even though this development has imposed certain constraints on us, it has given us opportunities to visit and stay at places where we never thought we would even be able to live.

Like the forest. No, not outside or on the outskirts of it. But right in the middle of it. How? By building a treehouse. As if we want to experience nature, we have to go and experience it like a part of it. And what can be a better part of nature than a tree?

Brief: The challenge of this competition is to design a treehouse that offers people a place to stay and experience the forest as an integral part of it.

The aim is to explore and innovate the concept of a treehouse by understanding not just the human requirements of space but also of the tree. So, through your creativity and imagination, show us how your treehouse looks.