This project attempts to synchronize building and land with agriculture and forestry practices through the experimental practice of agriculture and agroforestry, which rejects ecologically unsustainable means and methods. Both building and landscape are imagined as infrastructures comprising a larger feedback system, continuously changing, evolving, and dissipating to accommodate new program, species and unprecedented dynamics.

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Our understanding of building and landscape can be conceived as manifold processes occurring at multiple spatial and temporal scales: synchrony of material cycles and systems. The project’s inquiry into synchrony explores possible feedback loops between soil, agriculture and timber during stages in the building’s and landscape’s lives. Various local and industrial material processes contribute to this feedback system such that by-products of the process can be reused and/or contribute to other processes; different processes can be coupled and serve multiple complex functions; and the building as both noun and verb has a reciprocal relationship to the landscape. Time is largely the driver of these terrestrial processes such that the cyclical nature of soil and the dissolution of building material can be designed as complex system.