Date of Award

Spring 5-31-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Architecture (MArch)

Department

Architecture

First Advisor

Emily Wissemann Ezquerro

Second Advisor

Debbie Chen

Abstract

The United States has long maintained an extractive relationship with national forest land, leaving a dwindling number of old-growth forests and an overabundance of young, small trees. Waste byproducts of the industry, such as sawmill offcuts, are typically burned or chipped for groundcover; but what if they were reconsidered as viable building materials in their own right? Opting for stuffed and strapped connections over conventional notches and nails, Soft Stickers proposes a building ethos that accepts and accounts for material variation and dimensional change over time through supple materials and a long-term maintenance commitment. Green wood offcuts dry and shrink slowly, and require their straps to be tightened to remain structural. A Soft-Stickered Shed embodies this approach in the form of a classroom / storage space containing forestry tools on managed forestland.

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