In the spring of 2012, Tye Farrow, Farrow Architects, Toronto, met with Laurie Adams of the E’Terra Eco Estate in Tobermory to discuss an unusal concept. The playful project shared a similar vision to be ‘in the trees but not of the trees’. The tree houses are a dream about to be fulled for Laurie Adams and for Tye Farrow, a design inspired by nature created as the world had not seen before. Following in the foot steps of E’Terra, a philosphy based on the three E’s of Eugene P. Odum’s, in line with ongoing research to ensure the integrity of the environment and for ecology, Samara is growing from the seeds of imagination planted. The image was derived from the shape of a samara, commonly known as the maple key, a winged fibrous papery propeller shape that appears in autumn and enables the wind to carry these maple seeds. During the four seasons prior to and since the meeting with Tye, Laurie spends time observing and documenting the different trees to understand how they continue responding to changing local weather conditions especially the drier summers and the late winter freezing rains with heavy snowfall. The Bruce Peninsula has a globally recognized eco system and at the tip DIRT is rare commodity! The trees root structure grows more horizontal where roots systems find their way down into the depth of the lime stone escarpment crevasses & fissures for sustanence. A lot of the hardwoods and softwoods are twin or triplets and the conifers along the shoreline edges are knarled and twisted from years of weathered temper tandrums by Mother Nature blowing across the great expanse of Georgian Bay. The Harmony property is one of the last largest private stands of Maple, Oak, Beech & Ash at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula, while at the E’Terra property there is a smaller stand of Maple, Beech and large Hemlocks, but a coastline that is thickly forested with the smaller hardier Cedars and Spruce on what was once an ancient shore.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:11:53 +0000
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