«Horizontally Growing Trees» looks like an oxymoron.

“Horizontally Growing” is like a definition of rhizome. It means a non –hierarchical, polyphonic structure. A map without center with multiple entries and as many exits.

“Tree” is a hierarchical model, an arborescence. It goes from the trunk to the big branches, then smaller ones and so on. It is the paradigm of centrality, verticality. It is a stable model.

The goal of the project “TREEZOME” is to lay down a tree and transform it. From a vertical model, I’ll make a horizontal one. From a tree, I’ll make a rhizome.

Once laid down, the tree is cut in different sections around the three branches knots, like Y. Then, hazardously connected, these sections will create a random rhizomatic net.

An interesting fact: the rhizome will not be completely hazardous. It will depends on witch tree is chosen. A prune tree will not draw the same design as a white beam, an aspen or a mountain pine…

To hold the branches up, to maintain them in place, I’ll use pieces of bamboo stuck in the wood and the ground. We can notice that what hold the branches up and gave them a shape, the bamboo, is precisely… a rhizome.