Timber Waste Modular Unit

摘要

Wood products are enjoying a renaissance in architecture. But when designers Yugon Kim and Tomomi Itakura, partners at Boston-based IKD, looked at the life cycle of timber, they found "inefficiencies in maximizing carbon sequestration, one of which was the unused waste from the milling process," Kim says. They wanted to reuse the C-shaped trim pieces of logs-which can comprise up to 38 percent of a felled tree-without down-cycling them into lower-grade products like particleboard, wood pulp, mulch, or fuel.