{"id":6645,"date":"2011-03-05T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2011-03-05T20:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T20:45:42","slug":"living-green-bridges-are-vernacular-landscape-biotecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/living-green-bridges-are-vernacular-landscape-biotecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Living green bridges are vernacular landscape biotecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/living_green_bridge_biotecture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/living_green_bridge_biotecture.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"living_green_bridge_biotecture\" width=\"775\" height=\"516\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/living_green_bridge_biotecture.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/living_green_bridge_biotecture-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/living_green_bridge_biotecture-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/living_green_bridge_biotecture-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Living <\/em>bridges? I found a nineteenth century drawing of<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/the-greenest-bridge-ever-built\/\"> living green bridge <\/a>in 2009 and was delighted to find that they still exist. We can see it as vernacular landscape biotecture (using the word biotecture as a contraction of biological archiecture). The above example of a living root bridge is near Mawlynnong in the Khasi hills, in the Indian State of Meghalaya. Before you rush out any bridge construction detail based on this photograph please remember that &#8216;Meghalaya&#8217;y means The Abode of Clouds.  Assam is to the north and Bangladesh on the south. A village near Cherrapunji in the Khasi Hills is the wettest place on earth with an annual rainfall of just under 12000mm (ie 24 times London&#8217;s average annual rainfall of 500mm). One could attempt a living bridge with willows in England, but I think it would turn into a dam, because the branches would root into the water.<br \/>\nImage courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/kkseema\/\">Seema KK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living bridges? I found a nineteenth century drawing of living green bridge in 2009 and was delighted to find that they still exist. We can see it as vernacular landscape biotecture (using the word biotecture as a contraction of biological archiecture). The above example of a living root bridge is near Mawlynnong in the Khasi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}