Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Myhre, Elena Vee
Author's Email Address	evm07d@fsu.edu
URN	etd-07122010-160936
Title	Growing Home and Neomorphism: Creating Living Structures and a New Design Language
Degree	Master of Fine Arts
Department	Interior Design, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Eric Wiedegreen Committee Chair Karen Myers Committee Chair Jill Pable Committee Member
Keywords	Language Design Language Nepal Refugee Housing Myhre Vee Elena Neomorphism Living Architecture Architecture Design Organic Design
Date of Defense	2010-07-02
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Nature builds structures that evolve, self maintain, and eventually return to a natural state. Humans build in a few different ways, creating structures that will act as models of the desired goals, often with little regard for the impact of nature during the structures lifetime much less when its functionality has ended. Recently there have been projects and theoretical discussion on combining the human way of building and biological way of growing. One such project is presented here, titled “Growing Home”. Growing Home is a structure built from living bamboo, designed for stateless persons and refugee populations. Research has concluded that while numerous projects seek to combine growing elements within built structures, few structures have been created for stateless populations. An initial, experimental sample of Bhutanese refugees who have been living in Nepal since the early 1990s has been chosen as a target population. (Ranard, 2007).
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