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acadia23_v1_154 |
| authors |
Reisach, Dominik |
| year |
2023 |
| title |
Offcut Tales: Documenting the Aesthetic Qualities of Timber Waste |
| source |
ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 1: Projects Catalog of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 154-159. |
| summary |
Offcut Tales traces the path of a tree’s life, from the moment it sprouts from the earth to its final destiny as a standardized commodity in our consumer-driven society. It observes how trees, grown in farm-like forests, are harvested by merciless machines, leaving behind damaged ground that must soon host a new generation of trees (Figure 2). Disregarding the unique qualities of each tree, they are cut into several pieces, each exactly five meters in length, while their branches are stripped away and left to decay. These segments are then fed into the insatiable machinery of industrialized production, undergoing a series of fixed procedures that render them into perfectly rectangular timber beams, devoid of their original form. Imperfections are discarded, and the remnants of the tree’s story are jettisoned as waste. Known as offcuts, these discarded pieces accumulate in vast quantities, and are eventually consigned to the flames, deemed useless by our modern society (Figure 3). |
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ACADIA |
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