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Building from Forests opens at V&A South Kensington. The display asks a straightforward question: what changes when buildings are shaped by local, climate-resilient, mixed-species forests? It sits within the V&A’s ten-year Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures programme.
Why it matters: forests aren’t warehouses. Treat them well and you get strength, character and a lighter footprint. This display keeps the focus on local thinking, smart detailing and craft you can build with.
Make Good is supported by John Makepeace OBE, whose work helped launch Hooke Park as a woodland campus for making and timber innovation. Xylotek’s own story runs through Hooke Park – our Technical Director Martin Self served as Director of Hooke Park (2010–2018) – so this programme sits close to home.
Xylotek has supported dRMM on timber elements for the display – the design–make interface where material behaviour, joints and buildability are worked through.
The display opens 25 November 2025. It’s a free display, open daily 10:00 - 17:30, running through to 30 October 2026. More information here.
We’re proud to play our part. This is the kind of work we care about - helping good ideas land in the gallery, and then out in the world.
Treeptych, illustration courtesy of dRMM showing the role trees play in our ecosystem and the sustainable use of timber in construction and in the urban realm.
