Inosculation as a tool for living architecture: Methods and early results

Among the ways to introduce more plants within the city, living architecture could lower material required for building a house. However, trees are not supposed to have a house-like shape, so it is needed to give them this shape. That is why, we choose to investigate the assembly of living trees through inosculation. To do so, we initiated this work in March 2021, in our greenhouse, on five species: Acer platanoides, Celtis australis, Cornus Mas, Corylus colurna and Pyrus communis . We tested two types of contact (parallel or perpendicular) between two trees from the same species with scraped bark, or not, maintained by diverse tools (screw, fishing line, buddy tape and flexible stretch tie). From this, we get interesting anastomosis results with half of the trees showing signs of inosculation by spring 2022.