An international journal of forestry and forest industries

Revista internacional de silvicultura e industrias forestales

The terraced structures of Sunny Hills are designed to be built on sloping grounds and along the short valleys or hollows formed on hillsides and coastlines.

The House of Trees is comprised of two major components: a frame which relies on a repeated and joining W design to create stability and allow for easy expansion and a number of small modular units..

Revista internacional de silvicultura e industrias forestales

The Hive design relies on a honeycomb structural system built with prefabricated mass-timber pods that are arranged in an alternating pattern similar to other efficient, high-strength structures commonly found in nature and occurring at a cellular level in timber and other plant forms.

Revista internacional de silvicultura e industrias forestales

Revue internationale des forts et des industries forestires

This poster is the opening poster for the TREEHOUSING International Wood Design Competition that was run by FAO and DBR | Design Build Research School on the occasion of the XIV World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa, in September 2015.The competition challenged architecture students, professional architects and designers to develop innovative and sustainable wood housing and urban building solutions.

Rising from a forest of trees, the Sky’s the Limit is an experimental modular housing tower built entirely with wooden structural elements that aims to be both functional and beautiful.

Revista internacional de silvicultura e industrias forestales

A prototype for a high-rise with a structure made entirely of wood, Endless Canopy is a 30-story tower covered in plants to create the illusion of an endless canopy or a vertical forest that stretches from the ground floor to the very top of the tower.