Just 1/3 of Germany’s timber harvest annually would provide enough raw material to cover all domestic new construction. Berlin is expanding at an unprecedented rate and there is an increasing awareness that building with timber is the only solution to the housing crisis that can also allow Germany to meet the targets of the Paris agreement.

In a post-fossil future, where resource scarcity and climate change have become an unavoidable reality, new spaces and typologies will be required for us to find answers to the challenges facing humanity.