The Treehouse Project

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The Treehouse Project aims to build a cluster of tiny wooden structures at least a dozen feet off the ground, amid a forest at the foot of Lookout Mountain, below Rock City. Alms and Enoch Elwell would build the first one themselves, to open in March. It will have a shower, a toilet, a small refrigerator and a microwave oven, within a couple-hundred square feet. Internet service and some temperature control too. The Treehouse Project isn't only about luxury camping, though. The startup plans to mark itself as the first in the world to build treehouses certified as "living buildings," through the International Living Building Future Institute. To get the rigorous certification a project must not only steer clear of harming the natural environment -- it has to help it.