This project examines log boom storage as an overlooked, in-between condition within the timber industry, where wood is no longer a living tree, yet not fully a product. Situated within this suspended phase, the work reveals how extraction, transport, and consumption operate as a continuous and often invisible system. Using shipworms as a conceptual lens, the project highlights a biological process that can only emerge within this interval yet is consistently interrupted by human intervention. Through spatial and material strategies, the design makes perceptible the hidden forces acting on wood in storage. Ultimately, it reframes this transient state as a site of entanglement, where human and non-human processes intersect, suggesting that we are not external observers, but participants within the systems we depend on.
Nu Nguyen (Thu,) studied this question.