Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Baby: New Urban Tree design competition - Boston, MA

THE BAC STUDENT DEVELOPMENT BLOG: Competition :: New Urban Tree:
The “New Urban Tree” is a design competition centered on the decreasing tree canopy in North American metropolitan areas. The city leaves little room for the implementation of the necessary amount of trees needed to maintain a proper ecological system. Your task it to develop, through the innovation of biomimicry, a non-biological structure that would function, more or less, as a natural tree would.