We posted on California-based designer Jeff Casper's creations about a year ago (here and here), and in the time since, he's not been idle. Most recently Casper contributed to a project by friend and treehouse building expert Roderick Romero on a treehouse... with no tree.
While official documentation of the project does not yet exist on the web, Casper was kind enough to fill us in:
The "treeless treehouse" was built high on a hillside site in Bel Air, California. The location lacked trees mature enough to support a structure of this magnitude, so this cantilevered, inverted octagonal cone of wood was anchored into a deep, cubical-shaped concrete foundation. A twisting tornado of Forest Stewardship Council (F.S.C.) certified mixed-species reclaimed Brazilian hardwoods were milled, pre-drilled & mounted around a burly framework of reclaimed vintage Douglas Fir beams.
