Living root bridge
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living-root-bridge-175-17383786
title:
Living root bridge
text:
Living root bridges are a kind of tree shaping in which rivers are spanned by architecture formed out of the roots of ficus plants. Due to their being made from living, growing, trees, they "show a very wide variety of structural typologies, with various aspects of particular bridges resembling characteristics of suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges, arches, trusses, and simply-supported beams." They are common in the Indian state of Meghalaya. The structures are handmade from the aerial roo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of pedestrian bridge made with live trees
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_root_bridge
date created:
2014-10-23T03:34:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T09:41:33Z
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