Bi-Maple Bowls
Located in Malvern Hills, West Asheville, North Carolina, this tree net is 2 separate installations in Maple Trees connected by a slack line. It is made up mostly of woven suspended v-panels shaping bowls which scale these adjacent maple trees. Suspended off the insides of the branches with bolts, the webbing creates a perimeter to the slanted floors. The Tree Weaves team used webbing to weave the angled floors to make climbing easier on the sloped panels.
Close climbing holds allow access to many shapes and sizes of human.
Both trees have 4 v-panels varying with light blue, acid purple and goldenrod paracord. The south tree received a second floor crows-nest with walls giving an amazing sunset view of the Appalachian Mountain range.
Installing a tree net in a maple tree is a great depiction of how most of our work is an emergent process. Allowing the natural growth of the tree to direct and guide our choices and trajectory to the shape and form of the tree net.
The family who commissioned this installation for a front yard tree net has opened the tree house to their neighbors to climb and hang out in. Some of the kids have rigged a dumbwaiter with a bucket and rope to carry their picnics up to the net. This tree net is a great example of community building by spending more time outdoors in trees with your friends and communing with the people in your neighborhood. The family is intensely musical and often use their new playground as a space for jam sessions (queue guitar jingle).
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