Architectural · craft build
Forest Threshold
Two fallen red oaks, rebuilt as a gateway to the woods.
- Year
- 2024
- Discipline
- Architectural · craft build
- Materials
- Fallen red oak · stone sourced on site
- Role
- Material sourcing, collaborative build, drawing, dry-stone engineering
A collaboration between Wesleyan University and the Connecticut Forest & Park Association that turned two fallen red oaks into a 12×10×18′ timber gateway marking the entrance to the Highlawn Forest trail system.
Context
A marker that outlives its timber.
A collaboration between Wesleyan University and the Connecticut Forest & Park Association transformed two fallen red oaks into a 12×10×18-foot timber gateway marking the entrance to the Highlawn Forest trail system.
A team of four students designed and built the dry-stone rock-wall foundation — intended as a lasting marker once the wooden structure decays. All of the rocks were sourced from the Highlawn Forest.
Result
Place, made legible.
The gateway frames the trailhead today; the stone wall will frame it for decades. Material sourced from the forest, returned to the forest.
