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Australian design student Alexander Vittouris came up with an interesting way to make a bicycle: You grow it.

You’ve undoubtedly seen trees before tied off and allowed to grow into heart shapes, ladders and the like. Vittouris’ “Ajiro” bike employs these techniques, called arborsculpture, to grow bamboo into the shape of the bike’s skeleton.

Conventionally, shape modification of wooden and bamboo materials is achieved ‘post’ harvesting, by using energy intensive methods such as steam or heat bending. However, the proposal is for the structural frame of the vehicle to be grown on the outside of a skeleton inner structure, with all energy being derived from the plants natural process, contributing to its ultimate growth.(more…)

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