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  • Essay / In the trees - 1598

    Treehouses offer a symbiosis with nature that we seek in a society that is always on the move. New thinking in architecture on this notion of individual hiding places and places of retreat has become very popular. These new innovations offer a romance with nature and a new appreciation for craftsmanship. Treehouses symbolize childlike freedom from surveillance, a fantasy of the world's largest living sculptures. Places of refuge provide the shelter a city dweller needs due to their geographic location and individual character. As children, we are connected to nature and the more we become adults, the more we will crave nature. There is self-realization in the need for a private space for oneself: a view of the sky, a piece of land, a presence of nature and animals. A set of signs and images for a journey of self-realization responds to us by establishing what our needs are and exposing us to humanity as to what our needs are as such. The human begins to appear and we can see ourselves through architecture. The treehouses act as a device within these ideas against the house of the future, how can these things exist, emerges through this idea of ​​separating from the outside world. From ancient civilizations to the present day, the treehouse has taken many forms. . The idea of ​​a tree structure dates back to the primitive times of humanity as one of the earliest forms of architecture. In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder wrote of "the Emperor Caligula, who, in an estate at Velletri, was impressed by the floor of a single plane tree and by the benches placed freely on the beams made of its branches, and held a banquet in the tree. » In the past, monks built small houses in trees, but it was the Renaissance that sparked the creation of spectacular and unimaginable spaces. In his book Tree Houses, Anthony Aikman