Mattaforma

Architects passionate about non-extractive materials, forms and processes.

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Mattaforma is invited to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti. @crassociati @labiennale #BiennaleArchitettura2025 #IntelliGens

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures /Tracking detailed tree growth, harvests, and labor pools helps connect more people, from the forest to the manufacturer to the consumer.

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
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Grafting entails the combination of living parts of multiple species to produce super-trees, like growing a fruit-bearing stem onto a pest-resistant stump.

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures / Evidence of highly controlled coppicing, the continuous harvesting of small poles from the same stump, has been found as far back as 5,000 years ago.

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures / If forests are optimized only to capture carbon and store carbon as mass timber, monocultures are most effective in the short term, but this reduces old growth, a necessary infrastructure for resiliency.

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Rather than buying new today, consider ways to re-new. Here's an excerpt from @lindsey.wikstrom 's essay on urban mining, and ways that the building industry could be better at re-newing itself.
#urbanmining #reuse #reclaim #upcycle #recycle #downcycle

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
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Biodiversity has to be valued as part of an economic infrastructure, and so do small business owners, to prevent their extinction.

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
Our ability and willingness to listen, with technology, to the forest and respond to its needs will determine how we make material decisions about the city and see ourselves as the authors of the environment.

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
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Did you know that the amount of carbon stored inside one Cross Laminated Timber panel is the equivalent of 1 year of steak dinners?

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
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Computed tomography, or the imaging by section using x-rays, captures a full picture of a log, its exterior condition and inner defects.

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
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Verticality Chapter heading, graphic design by @elanaschlenker

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest / To house 1,000 people, a Lenape village would cultivate around six acres of two species: young American elm designed to yield poles 4 to 5 inches in diameter and 10–30 feet long, as well as Eastern Red Cedar for shingles.

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Today we're in Toronto at @AZURE 's Human/Nature conference. Loving the many disciplines gathering to consider such important issues of our time: Materials, Healthy Housing, Equitable Cities. Hope to see you at 11:30a for our workshop Mass Timber: Care is Choreography

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
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What if in the future, forests are thinned according to the Menominee method using drone balloons that
navigate around the highly protected mother trees.

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EXCERPT / Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
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Map showing intact ecosystems, hardwood, and softwood forests as well as predicted forest loss
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#masstimber #deforestation #regenerative #materials #futureofdesign

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Join Founder @lindsey.wikstrom 's workshop on mass timber at @AZURE Human/Nature in Toronto on October 24

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Tickets are available now for @AZURE Human/Nature - a conference on climate change mitigation in architecture and design. Join our workshop on choreography and care on October 24! #azure #humannature #regenerative #future #climate - https://t.co/o0wJNXtLdn

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AZURE featured excerpt from Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures, Mattaforma founder and AZURE Human/Nature speaker Lindsey Wikstrom explores a nascent architectural revolution - now live at this link: https://t.co/1UcDZzNr0x