How to Build with Zero-Kilometer Wood? The Experience of The Voxel in Barcelona

The Voxel – Una cabaña de cuarentena / Valldaura Labs. Image © Adrià Goula

Zero kilometer materials can be purchased locally, do not need to be transformed by large stages of industrial processing or toxic treatments and, at the end of their service life, they can be returned to the environment.

For example, wood from a nearby forest eliminates the need for long transfers, valuing local resources, and allowing architecture to lessen its environmental impact while committed to the landscape and context.

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