Growing Interconnected Relationships

The studio tried to understand architecture as a modulator of complex cultural, eco-geological, and historical flows, but will aim to do so by intensively exploring, evaluating, and expanding the role that tectonic cultures, especially those emerging from forest products and their associated modes of architectural expression play in shaping our world and the picture we form of it.

The work was done in collaboration in a group of three. While we embrace the carbon conscious logics championed by advocates of mass timber, we exercise caution and criticality towards the tendency of mass timber assemblies to over-utilize timber volume and to promote extractive relationships.