Deep Roots, Strong Branches

July 13th, 2009

November/December, 2007

Natural Home Magazine features the Chrysalis House.

“When selecting trees from their southwest Wisconsin property to use in the construction of their new home, farmers Marcia Halligan and Steven Adams passed over the stately oaks and the sturdy maples, choosing instead the weak and diseased trees. They didn’t need the forest’s strongest old-growth trees for their house, built using architect Roald Gundersen’s revolutionary Whole Tree Architecture. His technique uses whole, unmilled, “Charlie Brown” trees—in this case, weedy box elders, slender ironwoods, invasive black locusts, wind-bent hickory and diseased elms—to create sheltering, graceful homes while preserving mature forests around them.”

Tobais, Lori.  2007. “Deep Roots, Strong Branches” Natural Home.  Nov/Dec, 42-52.  For a link to the article click here.

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