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Mathieu Gallois: As an artist, architect, and furniture designer, Mat is interested in living in an experimental environment where he can push the idea of being green. The tree house dome, for instance, is from a previous architectural job, the logs from nearby Centennial Park, and the crates from a "street entrepreneur" — a fancy name for a guy they paid to source stuff that had been chucked out around the neighborhood.