Tree Protestor Shelter

This is from the November issue of Architectural Record. The caption reads:

Styx Valley Protest Structure
Tasmania, Australia, 2004

Although protesters have already been gathering within the forest, this new design concept would shelter them in extreme weather conditions. Additionally, the shelter would be attached to three trees, thereby spreading the load and saving more endangered trees in the process.

The shelter is the design of Aussie Andrew Maynard. In either an ironic twist or an example of poor rendering, the shelters appear to be constructed of . . . WOOD!

It is difficult to see at this size, but the occupants inside are milling around as if at a cocktail party. If moonbat Julia "Butterfly" Hill had had one of these things, she might be up there still!

UPDATE: More elaboration on the shelter and the protests, as well as another graphic, is at Andrew Maynard's website.