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Renzo Stucchi, owner with his wife of an organic farm in Viterbo (Italy), as a reminder of the tree house he had when he was a child, asked to La Cabane Perchee Architects to project a tree house on a 800 years old oak.

The tree has a trunk of 4.60m of diameter, is high 25m and has the foliage of 30m and grew on a lavender field and all around 12ha of olives are cultivated.
People can reach the tree house using helical stairs and arrive at 8.50m of highness. The house is 44m² and consists of a bedroom, a bathroom with shower and a built-in cupboard with a minibar inside. The structure is made of American red cedar, the only wood that can’t be attacked by parasites, moreover a big pipe of wood is used to bring all the systems from down to up.

Recently Mr.Stucchi built a new tree house -one of the biggest in Europe- of 87m² on a Maritime pine of 200 years old at 7m of highness, this is one of the first luxury and high-tech tree house.

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A video that explains the tree house_I’m sorry it’s in Italian!

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