Graduation project
dry | store | use
Paul Gödecken
A furniture concept proposes using the intermediate undried form of sawn spruce wood as a functional sitting object during the drying process.
This furniture concept takes on the intermediate form of sawn wood during the drying process as a functional sitting object. The project responds to recent bark beetle calamities that have caused massive clear cuts in forests in Central Europe. This led to late and poor processing of the deadwood, resulting in lower-quality wood products. Spruce is a fast-growing wood, able to collect and store large quantities of CO2. When treated right, wood can go through multiple product lifecycles in a cascade of uses. The sitting object was designed for disassembly and reuse, without glue or permanent connections. Using the wood while it still dries adds an extra step to its lifecycle and stores the contained carbon for the extra time of usage.