Imagine growing your own home, tailoring it to your individual
housing needs.  A space that is ecologically sound, living and
breathing just as you do.  An environment that grows and changes
with you.  A housing 'product' made from renewable resources that
can be safely discarded once it no longer suits your needs.

Humans have always used materials found in nature for their
dwellings such as wood, grasses, bamboo, dirt and animals
skins.  Over the years, simple constructions have been replaced
by dwellings of ever more complexity and maintenence using
man-made materials and construction methods. Within our new
technological century, we now have the opportunity to redesign
buidings and homes that are not only more earth-friendly, but
more user-friendly as well.

"Green" architectural movements of the past and present either
incorporate or recreate natural materials with man-made
materials. Why not go a step farther: use the natural structures
themselves (plants) as dwellings? This is Green Architecture at
it's logical extreme!  With Living Dwellings, man-made materials
and manufacturing are kept to a minimum amount.  In our age of
agricultural biotechnology and gene splicing, there is surely the
scientific ability to pioneer this new green architecture: jumbo-
sized plants to live in and nurture.

Plants and humans already enjoy a symbiotic relationship. They
exchange air (co2 for oxygen) and nutrients (human waste/fertilizer
in exchange for harvested food). Living within plants rather than
merely alongside them will benefit both humans and plants as
well as the planet.