What is Arbosculpture?

Arbosculpture is a rich and centuries old art form where the trees are slowly bent and grafted into beautiful and functional shapes such as ties, bridges, chairs, rocking nets, even full houses. Arbosculpture is supposed to demonstrate the degree of harmony that we can experience with nature, and carefully shape it because it grows than to cut it and eliminate all the appearance of the original form. Arbosculpture paintings have been in the works of art since 1516. Ash, apple, birch, willow, cherries, ashes and red alder are suitable for forming into Arboskulpt. For beginners Arbosculptors, simple arches, links, tool holders and fences are good projects. Anything is possible for advanced! Gazebos, ships, ladders, classrooms, large arches, gates, anything. Trees can even be adequate to hold stained glass. The son of the Swedish immigrants, was a former in Central California and later moved to the area between San Jose and Santa Cruz. He spent many years there by creating fantastic abstract and functional shapes from trees and in the spring of 1947 he opened a "tree circus" that attracted tourists around the world. Erlandson spent 40 years creating Arbosculpture and died in 1964. His tree circus is still standing to this day.

Art works from Germany from the beginning of the 20th century from Germany depict whole barn made of carefully caring trees. Recently, Mitchell Joachim, member of the Smart Cities Mital Lab Mital Lab, architect Javier Arbona and ecological engineer Lara Greden, revived the idea of ​​Arbosculpture "Living House", created CG mock -ups and developed deocasy how a house made from nothing but trees could turn off elements Hundreds of years with little maintenance. Not only would it do soThe house had a zero environmental footprint, but in fact it would have a pure positive effect by removing excess carbon dioxide from the air and the production of fresh oxygen. Arbosculpture, if it catches, could be a very important part of the greener future.