Conversations in Architecture | Close-to-Nature Forestry with Jens Jacob and Hans Peter Dinesen

When wood is harvested using the close-to-nature forestry approach, an old-growth tree falls exactly where nature would intend it to fall, opening new space for sunlight and rainwater to enrich the next generation of tall trees.

Learn about close-to-nature forestry, a sustainable practice that champions intentionality and maintains a forest’s complex and biodiverse ecosystem, with Grace Farms Architecture Advisor Toshihiro Oki, along with Jens Jacob and Hans Peter Dinesen of Dinesen. Dinesen, a wood flooring company based in Denmark, has sourced timber attained through close-to-nature forestry from family-owned woods for 300 years, spanning five generations.

Conversations in Architecture is an ongoing program series welcoming leading architects, designers, professors, and practitioners to reflect on how architecture can act as a driver of humanitarian change through sustainable design, forced labor-free buildings, creative construction, and more. This series is hosted by Toshihiro Oki.