This project considers the undervalued resource of used, waste, and off-cut wood as a new language for discrete architectural components. Instead of downcycling useful timber, this project considers the possibility of tapping into this large waste resource to keep more timber products in use.

Off-cuts are categorised by sectional dimensions and then modularised to set lengths. These modules are then packed and reconfigured into digital voxel sets and are aggregated using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm to create larger, specific formations of the timber off-cuts, joined by folded metal connectors for assembly and reconfiguration.

WFC is used as a constraint programming algorithm to solve 3D combinatorial problems. Voxels are categorised for placement by design typology. By limiting and constraining the allowable aggregation of the voxel types according to specific design parameters, a spatial language is developed which explores the potential for this waste product to become a useful and beautiful building material at multiple scales.