After Architecture designed Sylvan Scrapple, a wooden structural wall installation.

Sylvan Scrapple is a wooded oasis formed by a 110-foot-long snaking wall.

The public space design demonstrates new possibilities in robotic manufacturing, mass timber construction, and material reuse.

"Wood construction offers carbon sequestration, renewability and local sourcing [however] 48% of harvested wood is unusable as straight lumber, requiring intensive processing and toxic adhesives to become other products," said After Architecture.

Nonlinear wood represents an untapped resource for construction; Sylvan Scrapple pilots an application for nonlinear logs using a novel robotic sawmill designed and built by the designers.

As a result, a 34-metre-long, 7.5-centimetre-wide, structural, snaking wood wall was inserted along an existing 185-square-metre landscape planter to shape a series of seating areas and thresholds.

This project has been longlisted in the installation design category of Dezeen Awards 2024.

Studio: After Architecture
Project: Sylvan Scrapple
Credits: Before Building Laboratory