#69 - PINUS RADIATA

LOCATION: Northern Island, New Zealand.

DATE: February 2019

HEIGHT: 11 meters main platform,

SURFACE: 51 m²

MATERIALS: Treated pine, up-cycled windows and traditional totara fence posts as railing.

These two giants are the largest, oldest and wisest of the many beautiful beings living at Highden Manor. We had a first conversation with these trees about building something back in 2017 during the build of Kahikitea 34. At that time we were not prepared to satisfy the immense calling of these two majestic trees. Hence, we spent our three weeks building a smaller and cosy treehouse as a birthday gift to Bruce for his 60th. During our last days at Highden Manor in 2017, we developed sketches and the first plans to build up into these two giants. Two years later we returned to create this habitat up in the branches just to discover that the possums had been living in the upper branch crotches all along.