Zhenxiao Yang, "Inverting the Unwanted"
Inverting the Unwanted introduces an innovative timber structure design that involves cutting a log into quarters and rearranging it to create a square exterior. This method standardizes the geometry and dimensions of small-diameter trees, which are an underutilized waste-material stream, transforming them into posts and beams. As small-diameter trees are often felled en masse as part of a forestry practice called “thinning”, repurposing these materials has the potential to sequester the carbon otherwise released through decomposition.
