Omer Arbel Office Films Concrete Tree-like Forms that will Become House 75.9

Designer Omer Arbel’s Vancouver studio has made a film documenting the concrete forms of House 75.9, which is being built on a hay farm near Surrey in British Columbia, Canada.

The video shows the partially complete home that is being used as a testbed to continue Arbel’s experiments into the properties of concrete on the scale of a building.Omer Arbel Office designed the unique home around a series of 10 tree-like concrete forms that reach as high as 10 metres, rising up to become the home’s ceilings.

When the home is complete, a magnolia tree will be planted in each of the concrete forms, with leaves and branches spreading over the roof exterior.”From a poetic perspective, we decided to consider the concrete trees – with real magnolia trees planted within – as if they were archaeological remains found on site,” Arbel told Dezeen.