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Growing Home Shelter
Designed by Stefan de Beer

From: Breda, Netherlands
Shelter location: Netherlands
Date accepted: August 27, 2009

The frame of this shelter is a living and growing skeleton of bamboo. Direction and angle of growth is determined by a network of cables. When the bamboo reaches its desired length a special technique stops growth. Making a living organism the main part of an architectural construction. Weather resistant cloth covers the grown frame. This shelter  will function beside the practical use as a contrast to its surroundings.

Growing Home Shelter
Growing Home Shelter
Growing Home Shelter
Growing Home Shelter

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