通过建筑亲近自然有多种形式。有些房屋采用玻璃幕墙，消除了室外和室内之间的障碍，然后有些房屋的蓝图环绕树木，将它们的檐篷和树干融入房屋的布局中。耶路撒冷 Bezalel 艺术与设计学院的学生设计师 Omri Cohen 有不同的想法。Cohen 开发了 Living Shell，这是一种建筑外壳，通过将黄麻、毛毡和小麦草种植成一种织物形式，铺在竹框架上。

谈到纺织技术，Living Shell 诞生于 Cohen 寻求将小麦草根系层层进化为弹性纺织材料的过程。在贝壳的曲线结构形状上，小麦草织物包裹在竹框架上，在它继续生长的同时形成绝缘层和遮荫层。科恩在他用黄麻、毛毡和小麦草开发的廉价建筑材料中发现了耐用性。将不同的根以一种为持续生长期留出空间的模式分层，随着根继续交织和生长，纺织品的厚度和耐用性会随着时间的推移而增加。虽然他还没有建造一个真人大小的 Living Shell，但 Cohen 制作了 1:10 的模型来证明将 Living Shell 引入农村和城市环境的可行性。将结构连接到灌溉系统，

虽然 Living Shell 的功能就像一座房子，但它更有可能为小动物提供天然的避难所，让它们从那里收集筑巢材料并栖息。此外，Cohen 开发了 Living Shell，让城市居民和农村农民有机会观察大自然的活动，了解大自然的所有自然生长、再生和腐烂过程。

设计师：Omri Cohen

英文版

Getting close to nature through architecture comes in many forms. Some homes take to glass facades, dissolving the barrier between the outdoors and inside, then some homes feature blueprints that wrap around trees, incorporating their canopies and trunks into the lay of the house. Omri Cohen, a student designer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, has a different idea. Cohen developed the Living Shell, an architectural shell built by growing jute, felt, and wheatgrass into a form of a textile that’s laid over a bamboo frame.

Turning to textile technology, Living Shell was born from Cohen’s quest to evolve layers of wheatgrass root systems into elastic, textile materials. Settling on the shell’s curvilinear structural shape, the wheatgrass textile wraps over its bamboo frame, forming layers of insulation and shade while it continues to grow. Cohen found durability in the inexpensive building material he developed from jute, felt, and wheatgrass. Layering the different roots together in a pattern that allows room for sustained growth periods, the textile’s thickness and durability increase over time as the roots continue to interlace and grow. While he has yet to build a life-size Living Shell, Cohen crafted 1:10 models to demonstrate the feasibility of introducing the Living Shell into rural and urban environments alike. Connecting the structure to an irrigation system, the textile overwrap would most likely receive nourishment from a programmed watering method.

While Living Shell functions like a house, it would more likely offer natural refuge hubs for small animals to gather nesting materials from and inhabit. Additionally, Cohen developed Living Shell so that urban dwellers and rural farmers have the opportunity to watch nature in action, for all of its natural growth, regenerative, and decay processes.

Designer: Omri Cohen