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The measure of a material
When a single material predominates, there is scope to inhabit that material in a sensorily immersive way — by touch, sight, smell and even sound, since the character of a surface affects the character of an acoustic. Here, where the timber has been subjected to the minimum intervention, the finished structure will also carry more than a trace memory of the forest from which it has been formed.
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Photography
Dinesen, Gumpp & Maier