Forest First: Timber Building Travel or railway as they took

or railway as they took in the magnificent views

Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ first solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

as well as site and floor plans

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Forest First: Timber Building Travel or railway as they took"Forest First" considers a recursive relationship between forests and timber building. It puts the forest first and offers a detailed immersion into forest history, forest stand dynamics, forest ecology, forest building carbon dynamics, and possible future forest trajectories as the pretext for thinking about timber technics. The specificity of regional forests suggests much about the prospect of non extractive building design: building that tends and