Lots of images there James, new one’s I think. cage, teepee? let’s let them melt together. no names. Fort Rowan – documented? it’s lovely here now, sleet hitting the skylights. most of my life is up on the blogs – does that mean since I have time to write about it life must be unfolding way to slowly? be good to update soonish. I unearthed an email to Doug the other day, it was like I got a cosmic nudge from him. miss you too!

D

On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Jim Allegro wrote:

I’m digging the suspension-house Danny boy. Like the idea of ropes hanging from a beautiful metal cage-like sphere above…a tee=pee esque tensile structure. What will you call it….do tell.

Miss you.

Jim

PS: built a tree fort…or a stilt fort attached to a tree last spring with Ryan and Owen….hence the name Fort Rowan. Bamboo is an amazing building material.

On Dec 5, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote:

I like it, but for the bearing thing, it takes away from the elegance. Unless it was fixed to the tree by some means other than spikes, and I would like to think of it more as a bumper than a bearing. And I think we should stay away from large structural steel components, but I like the rest a lot. What if the donut shaped structure was actually 6 or 8 concentrically arranged hanging houses that were sort of lashed together to form the donut, and as the tree grew, you could detach them and put in spacers between them and re-lash them together? this would allow the tree to grow indefinitely without ever getting choked.