Tree Mansions – Austin Bunton Designs

These are the best and biggest treehouses in the world.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Composition and Architectural Style
Dimensions & Layout
Population Over Time
Special Features
Overall (Images Begin)
Terrain Slope
Concepts, External
Concepts, Internal
WoW Views
2022 Scale-model in Minecraft

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Introduction:

Inisfreean tree-houses range in size and shape from one-room pods to full-sized mansions, each one being at the height of imaginable luxury. Hundreds of them are hidden amidst the thick greenbelt of towering trees on the far-side of Inisfree’s central mountain, with a few dozen of these being the large, mansion-sized ones. They are usually all referred to as either “luxury treehouses” or “tree mansions” because all of them are luxuriously appointed to the level of décor one would expect to see in any quality Outlands mansion.

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Composition and Architectural Style:

These treehouses are made of our lighter-weight, stronger materials, so they don’t weigh on the trees they are around.
They are also supported by bark-colored columns set close to the trees once the trees have reached their maximum natural height, thus they act more like armor than anything dependent upon the trees.
This is why we can have multi-story treehouses, and multiple treehouses per tree, without stunting or otherwise harming any of our trees.
It also ensures that hundreds to thousands of our biggest trees are constantly monitored and guarded, so things such as fire or pests never pose a threat to any of them.

The porch doors of the mid-sized and larger of our treehouses are wide enough that an “Owl” hover-cycle can be piloted through, thus stored/parked inside. This means these treehouses technically have parking-garages. You don’t need to walk or climb all the way up or down to them unless you just like to.

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Dimensions & Layout:

This neighborhood spans a couple square miles of a big portion of our central mountain’s slope, extending down from the trail near the base of the Avalanche Wall… to the near the top of the Cliff-dwelling 1 neighborhood/structure, and over from the tributary/canal nearest the ski-slope/lanes of the Valhalla II resort… to the tributary/canal separating this treehouses-neighborhood from the one for ryokans. The hundreds of treehouses here are arranged along the 47 terraces of that area. Averaged out, that comes out to ~11 treehouses per terrace (though the actual range is 0 to 28 treehouses per terrace, some of those terraces being narrower or otherwise unsuitable for dwellings).

These tree-houses may be as small as a pod-bed or typical Outlander child’s tree-house, or include up to thousands of square feet of floor-space per story (think: ~45′ x 45′ or more, but circular). All of Inisfree’s tree-houses start at least a few stories up off the local forest floor, and can extend well up into the top branches of their trees, though never peaking out above their canopies (with the exceptions of a few periscopes and retractable crow’s nests, similar to the structures found on larger ships). In the larger tree-houses in this city, rooms and furniture will be arranged the same way they would in any normal type of house or apartment, and, like in the downtown areas of major cities, some of these tree-houses are connected by ‘sky bridges’; suspension walkways linking their balconies on various levels and out from them in various directions. To get up into any of these tree-houses, a wooden, fort-like version of Inisfree’s A.I.O.W.s are always available; a standard part of each tree-house design here.

As of 2022, there are 500 of these treehouse-adorned trees in Inisfree, all in this neighborhood of theirs on one side of the upper half of the slope of our central mountain.

Compact: Single-room treehouses (~20′ x ~20′, minus the tree/trunk they are built around) can comfortably house ~5 guests/residents
(in a bunkbeds setting; 2 on the lower bunkbed, 1 or 2 on the upper bunkbed, and 1 or 2 outside on hammocks).
Tiny: Small treehouses (~30′ x ~30′, minus the tree/trunk they are built around) can comfortably house ~10 guests/residents
(2-3 on the bed, another 2 on floor-mats/mattresses, and the rest outside on hammocks).
Small: Common-sized treehouses (~40′ x ~40′, minus the tree/trunk they are built around) can comfortably house ~15 guests/residents
(3 on the bed, 2-3 on floor-mats/mattresses, 1 on the sofa, and the rest outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks).
Medium: Treehouses slightly more spacious than common Outlander treehouses (~50′ x ~50′ x 2 floors/stories, minus the tree/trunk they are built around) can comfortably house ~25 guests/residents
(3 on the bed, 3 on floor-mats/mattresses upstairs,
1 on the sofa, 5 on floor-mats/mattresses downstairs,
and the remaining 13 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks).
Large: Bigger treehouses (~60′ x ~60′ x 3 floors/stories, minus the tree/trunk they are built around) can comfortably house ~35 guests/residents
(2-3 on the uppermost bed, 2 on floor-mats/mattresses up there,
3 on the mid-level bed, 3 on floor-mats/mattresses there,
1 on the couch downstairs, 9 on floor-mats/mattresses down there,
and the remaining 14 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks).
Larger: Mansion-sized treehouses (~70′ x ~70′ x 4 floors/stories, minus the tree/trunk they are built around) can comfortably house ~100 guests/residents
(3 on the 4th-story bed, 7 on floor-mats/mattresses up there, 1 on the sofa up there, 9 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks,
4 on the 3rd-story bed, 9 on floor-mats/mattresses there, 1 on the sofa there, 13 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks,
4 on the 2nd-story bed, 8 on floor-mats/mattresses there, 1 on the sofa there, 15 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks,
12 on floor-mats/mattresses on the 1st-story, 1 on the sofa down there, and the remaining 17 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks).
Giant: Hotel-sized treehouses (~80′ x ~80′ x 5 floors/stories, minus the tree/trunk they are built around) can comfortably house ~200 guests/residents
(4 on the 5th-story bed, 1 on the sofa, 17 on floor-mats/mattresses up there, 8 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks,
4 on the 4th-story bed, 1 on the sofa, 19 on floor-mats/mattresses there, 9 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks,
4 on the 3rd-story bed, 1 on the sofa, 22 on floor-mats/mattresses there, 12 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks,
4 on the 2nd-story bed, 1 on the sofa, 26 on floor-mats/mattresses there, 15 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks,
1 on the 1st-story couch, 1 on the sofa, 31 on floor-mats/mattresses down there, and the remaining 19 outside on the wraparound-porch hammocks).

Our biggest treehouses are around our thickest tallest trees in this area. Those trees commonly have a trunk base diameter (“base girth”) of ~40-50′.

Our smallest treehouses are around the thinnest shortest trees in this area which can easily support them. These trees commonly have a trunk base diameter (“base girth”) of ~5-10′.

Groups:

Tiny-size treehouses are always on trees with compact-size treehouses above them.
Medium-size treehouses are always on trees with small-size treehouses above them.
Giant-size treehouses are always on trees with larger-size treehouses above them, and large-size treehouses above those.

Thirds:

~1/3 (166) of the 500 treehouse-supporting trees in this forest/neighborhood have the tiny-and-compact treehouses-combo on them.
~1/3 (167) of the 500 treehouse-supporting trees in this forest/neighborhood have the medium-and-small treehouses-combo on them.
~1/3 (167) of the 500 treehouse-supporting trees in this forest/neighborhood have the giant-larger-large treehouses-combo on them.

Terrace by Terrace:
(from lowest to highest)

1 brown (cabins), 0 green (treehouses)
2 brown, 0 green
2 brown, 4 green
3 brown, 2 green
2 brown, 2 green
2 brown, 4 green
5 brown, 4 green
12 brown, 4 green
7 brown, 14 green
16 brown, 15 green
16 brown, 22 green
15 brown, 19 green
18 brown, 14 green
20 brown, 21 green
16 brown, 20 green
18 brown, 18 green
21 brown, 24 green
20 brown, 23 green
16 brown, 18 green
20 brown, 18 green
15 brown, 19 green
27 brown, 22 green
26 brown, 28 green
29 brown, 27 green
11 brown, 10 green
6 brown, 14 green
8 brown, 8 green
11 brown, 8 green
5 brown, 11 green
13 brown, 14 green
8 brown, 12 green
8 brown, 10 green
7 brown, 10 green
12 brown, 12 green
6 brown, 10 green
5 brown, 9 green
4 brown, 7 green
3 brown, 4 green
1 brown, 5 green
3 brown, 6 green
4 brown, 6 green
4 brown, 8 green
6 brown, 9 green
7 brown, 11 green
9 brown, 10 green
2nd from top: 8 brown, 5 green
top (highest terrace; closest to the Avalanche Wall): 3 brown, 0 green

The number of trails/streets connecting these treehouses at ground-level (at the base of the trees they are built around/upon) matches their number of terraces; there is 1 trail/road/street per terrace, + ~13 footpaths/trails evenly fanning out from top to bottom of this sections of our central mountain’s slope. 47 terraces for this neighborhood means 47 trails, + the 13 ones going up/down this side of our central mountain; there are 60 trails connecting all (the trees of/for) these treehouses. 13 up-and-down trails between the average 11 treehouses per terrace = 1 up-and-down trail between every one of them.

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Population Over Time:

Roughly 1 more person made this neighborhood his/her home (or at least their 2nd/vacation home) every year from 2013 to 23000 A.D..

2013: the first guest or resident here
2022: ~9 living in this neighborhood this year (meaning at least 491 of our treehouses here are vacant/available)
~23000 A.D. and beyond: ~20,000 at capacity

That is calculated from the following per-treehouse capacities:

Compact: 166 treehouses x ~5 guests/residents = ~830 guests/residents
Tiny: 166 treehouses x ~10 guests/residents = ~1,660 guests/residents
Small: 167 treehouses x ~15 guests/residents = ~2,505 guests/residents
Medium: 167 treehouses x ~25 guests/residents = ~4,175 guests/residents
Large: 167 treehouses x ~35 guests/residents = ~5,845 guests/residents
Larger: 167 treehouses x ~100 guests/residents = ~16,700 guests/residents
Giant: 167 treehouses x ~200 guests/residents = ~33,400 guests/residents

That totals 65,115; ~65,000 guests/residents (with standing-room (during parties or other gatherings) for about as many; this neighborhood of treehouses can be used by up to ~130,000 human-sized people –not including camping-tent space in their yards/greenbelts at ground-level.

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Special Features:

Some of these tree-houses are so well-camouflaged that it would take bumping into one to find it.

All tree-houses in Inisfree also have heated floors and heated toilet seats.
”It all adds up to a nice..warm..feeling in your soul.”

This area includes the Redwood-top open-sided nook-beds like in (and inspired by) Darnassus and Felwood (in World of Warcraft), though these tree-top bedrooms are found all the way around the base-area of the Avalanche Wall.

Since we use no lumber in any of our structures, and since we make them out of SRC-based building-blocks, and since we build them around our trees without ever harming any part of our trees, they are more like armor or shields for our trees than just hangouts built around/upon them. The people who call these treehouses their homes are also all, like us, tree/nature-lovers, so you won’t ever see them doing anything like carving their names or initials into the trees’ trunks, and they take watching over –and out for– their trees very seriously. As much as a human Outlander might fear being up in the dizzying heights of some tall trees, everyone here and elsewhere in Inisfree feels that same level of emotion, but of/all love and protectiveness, for our/the trees here.

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Overall: