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From the Ted Talk by Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Why grow homes? Because we can. Right now, America is in an unremitting state of trauma. And there's a cause for that, all right. We've got mceppole, McCars, McHouses. As an architect, I have to confront something like this.

So what's a technology that will allow us to make ginormous houses? Well, it's been around for 2,500 years. It's called pleaching, or gtiafnrg teres together, or grafting inosculate matter into one cutoiognus, vascular system. And we do something different than what we did in the past; we add kind of a muidocm of intelligence to that. We use CNC to make scaffolding to train semi-epithetic mtetar, plants, into a specific geometry that makes a home that we call a Fab Tree Hab. It fits into the environment. It is the evrminennot. It is the landscape, right?

Open Cloze


Why grow homes? Because we can. Right now, America is in an unremitting state of trauma. And there's a cause for that, all right. We've got ________, McCars, McHouses. As an architect, I have to confront something like this.

So what's a technology that will allow us to make ginormous houses? Well, it's been around for 2,500 years. It's called pleaching, or ________ _____ together, or grafting inosculate matter into one __________, vascular system. And we do something different than what we did in the past; we add kind of a _______ of intelligence to that. We use CNC to make scaffolding to train semi-epithetic ______, plants, into a specific geometry that makes a home that we call a Fab Tree Hab. It fits into the environment. It is the ___________. It is the landscape, right?

Solution


  1. environment
  2. mcpeople
  3. trees
  4. matter
  5. contiguous
  6. modicum
  7. grafting

Original Text


Why grow homes? Because we can. Right now, America is in an unremitting state of trauma. And there's a cause for that, all right. We've got McPeople, McCars, McHouses. As an architect, I have to confront something like this.

So what's a technology that will allow us to make ginormous houses? Well, it's been around for 2,500 years. It's called pleaching, or grafting trees together, or grafting inosculate matter into one contiguous, vascular system. And we do something different than what we did in the past; we add kind of a modicum of intelligence to that. We use CNC to make scaffolding to train semi-epithetic matter, plants, into a specific geometry that makes a home that we call a Fab Tree Hab. It fits into the environment. It is the environment. It is the landscape, right?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. add
  2. america
  3. architect
  4. call
  5. called
  6. cnc
  7. confront
  8. contiguous
  9. environment
  10. fab
  11. fits
  12. geometry
  13. ginormous
  14. grafting
  15. grow
  16. hab
  17. home
  18. homes
  19. houses
  20. inosculate
  21. intelligence
  22. kind
  23. landscape
  24. matter
  25. mccars
  26. mchouses
  27. mcpeople
  28. modicum
  29. plants
  30. pleaching
  31. scaffolding
  32. specific
  33. state
  34. system
  35. technology
  36. train
  37. trauma
  38. tree
  39. trees
  40. unremitting
  41. vascular
  42. years