Leslie Lok and Sasha Zivkovic, both assistant professors of architecture at Cornell University have created a 100 feet tiny house utilizing reject trees 3D printers and a robot arm they found on ebay! Why did they do this? To make use of trees that are typically unusable.
from the article:
“The Emerald Ash Borer is an invasive beetle species that threatens ash trees in the US. The beetles make full-grown ash trees unsuitable for sawmills and construction because of the irregular shape. With this design, Hannah found a way to repurpose these trees that were previously considered waste material. The studio created a 100-square-foot prototype in rural upstate New York, and it survived its first New York winter.”