project
faculty mailboxes
Design, Fabrication, Installation -Alex Timmer, Fritz Eckstrom
Photography: Connor Ever
Milwaukee, WI
2022
The timber removed from our urban forests is an underutilized and sustainable source of lumber. While the goal of urban forestry is the maintenance of our city’s forests, occasionally, communities must remove trees. The utilization of trees when they need to be removed because of rot, natural disaster, safety, development, or death offers an opportunity to think more systematically about timber utilization. This source of material allows architects to feed resources directly back into the communities in which they are extracted. Rather than this material going to waste or burned for fuel, it is turned into urban ash plywood that is used for the renovated faculty mailboxes at the in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning.