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housing method for refugees. The project proposed here does not just examine nature and natural processes; it uses these natural processes to create a structure that helps sustain humans and nature simultaneously. The Growing Home project is also a study of the subsequent interiors in these structures, likewise comprised of growing elements. The interior of a structure must interact with its user in a more immediate way than the exterior. This project will examine how such a design can fulfill the need for shelter, and the traditions of home, as opposed to house. This project would promote the idea of making living spaces that are deeply connected with the earth; a house made of living plants. The project will be comprised of two different types of structures to test two separate theories. The first type of living structure will be planted and grown into its design. For the second type of living house, mature bamboo with be pleached, or grown together as it stands in the ground. In both cases, the procedure will involve creating the structure’s frame entirely of bamboo. An established agricultural technique, pleaching, will be used to grow the structure bamboo into a unified whole. Pleaching involves the creation of a smaller frame of cut and living bamboo within the larger frame of living, structural bamboo. This woven framework around the pleached growing elements will act as a flexible moisture barrier for the structural bamboo. A bamboo structural framework will be grown and kept growing as the rest of the structure is built. There will be a layer of weaving using strips of bamboo in such a way as to separate the structure from the adobe cob mixture so that the interior is able to function as needed and so the exterior planted structure can grow as intended. The estimated cost for required materials is dependent on the size of the end product structure. For this thesis a small home to accommodate the typical family of the Bhutanese stateless person is being modeled. This sample family will include one paternal grandmother, one paternal aunt, both maternal grandparents a mother and father, as well as two children. This structure could be grown as large as necessary to allow the extended family living situation as traditional in Nepal (Andrea Matles Savada, 1991). An adobe-cob mixture would be used as the interior for the structure. There is a range of soils in Nepal, from thin, desert type solids on the highest mountains, to rich alluvial soils in the valleys; all but the desert type soils have clay substance (Negi, 1994). Residual soils are mostly coarse and dry but mixing water and residue plant matter can help to create the needed cob composition. In creating an effective adobe or cob mixture Gerot Minke, author of Building with Earth, provides excellent reasons for why an adobe-cob mixture is a positive choice for building. Adobe- cob is molded, much like clay to incorporate built in storage, and other design features within the walls. Adobe-cob is also a material that can be created and used by unskilled workers with little training, but has efficient and effective insulation and shelter properties (Minke, 2006). Neomorphism The idea of creating structures out of live biological materials, like the “Growing Home” as this thesis proposes, is being experimented with as more sustainable ways of building are sought. Although many of these projects are still conceptual, the integration of them into the narrative of design is necessary for the growth of design as a whole, in this author’s opinion. Such a combination of nature and human building requires a new design vocabulary to describe the design project. This design language, termed Neomorphism, is the new design term illustrated in this poster. The Latin root neo means new and morphism descends from morph, which means to change. Literally, “New Growing” symbolizes the progressive nature of the projects without creating a definitive label that would constrict or limit the concept of what neomorphism is or could be. Neomorphic <strong>Design</strong> describes all projects that use living organic materials in the design. Because of the use of actual living elements within Neomorphic designs, each has the potential of constant evolution as a design product and creation. Neomorphism is a language that combines neoplasmatism, morphogenesis, bioarchitecture and other terms within design and art in which the growing elements of the design program change in some way as a contribution of the creation. This design language uses adjectives and verbs 74
connected to the existing elements and principles of design terms in an effort to standardize the vocabulary used to describe creations. Elements and principles are a binding force among all design and art professions. This vocabulary should become academically accepted in the effort to bring together new uses for technology, biology and design, using established vocabulary could create and promote universality of the new design language that is Neomorphism. Expanding the meaning of these principles and elements in design will result in a free and universal language appropriate to Neomorphic design. Neomorphic design is not just concerned with aesthetics and function but also the incorporation of the earth that surrounds us, and seeks to reflect those actions within the elements and principles of the Neomorphic design language and terminology. These actions are illustrated with the verb and adjective prefixes that connect to the known elements and principles of design. To reflect societies hope and progression towards a new relationship with the natural environment from imposed human structures to new place for living in harmony with the natural world. References Adams, C. (2008). Bamboo architecture and construction with Oscar Hidalgo. Natural Building Colloquium, Southwest. Networks Productions. Agency, C. I. (2009, Janurary 22). United States Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved October 5, 2009, from CIA World Fact Book: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/np.html Alter, L. (2008, June 3). Bamboo houses stand up to earthquakes. Retrieved July 28, 2008, from Tree Hugger: www.treehugger.com Andrea Matles Savada, E. (1991). Nepal: A country study. Washington: United States Library of Congress. B and T World Seeds. (2009). Photographs of Plants. Retrieved 2009, from http://www.b-and-t-world-seeds.com/images/447590.jpg Banki, S. (2004). Refugee integration in the intermediate Term: A study of Nepal, Pakistan, and Kenya. Switzerland: UNHCR. Berry, L. (2008). The impact of environmental degradation on refugee host relations: A case study from Tanzania. Switzerland: UNHCR. Bhutan. (2008). Bhutan Tourism. Retrieved 2009, from Bhutan Culture: http://www.hiketohelprefugees.org/history.aspx Blaha, M. (2009). I love Cob. Retrieved 2009, from What is Cob?: http://ilovecob.com/about Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal. (2008). Nepal in Figures. Kathmandu: Government of Nepal. Didier, B. (2000). Displacement, human rights and conflict resolution: An international conference on forced migration in the south Asia region. Journal of Refugee Studies (pp. 223-226). Calcutta: Journal of Refugee Studies. Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration. California: University of California Press. Government of Bhutan. (2008). Bhutan Celebration 2008. Retrieved 2009, from: http://www.bhutan2008.bt/ndlb/themes/centenary/images/dress.jpg Hidalgo-Lopez, O. (2003). Bamboo: The gift of the gods. 75
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