TreeHAUS: Forest-Inspired Multifamily Housing for a Truly Regenerative Future

The TreeHaus is a design for a net-positive, regenerative housing development inspired by the way trees collect and distribute resources in the forest. The goal of the project is to create a building that strengthens its surrounding environment and municipality by imagining it as a constituent of its contextual ecology. The TreeHaus will harness energy from the sun, harvest water from the rain, and cycle resources and information throughout its community in the same way that plants and trees do through networks in nature. The TreeHAUS design will be presented here as a case study in truly regenerative, bio-inspired housing development.