This projects aims at presenting an alternative to prevailing tendencies within computational design practices and digital design methodologies. The project adopts a painterly approach both in its digital process and analogue scavenging and assembly. These objects are situated as an alternative model for highly standardized, failing and ethically dubious modes of sustainable design production.

The project is developed through a digital-analogue workflow that moves between scavenging for natural material, namely fallen timber members, to 3D scanning, and back into a physical construct. Found fallen members are 3D scanned, which allows for a quick sorting of elements given predetermined evaluation criteria. 3D scanned fallen timber members are input into a customized computational system that allows for matching surfaces along the timber members to leverage naturally occurring male-female joint. This allows for the digital assembly of a reciprocal frame system that is translated in the physical world as a stable construct with at least three members that touch the ground on three points. From an assembly point of view, the project looks to avoid invasive approaches to the fallen timber member. Thus, the project’s structural principles are built on the self-supporting reciprocal frame typology that requires no mechanical or subtractive connections.