"I believe the building industry to be one of the most wasteful of industries, and I want to show it doesn’t have to be that way. I also wanted to shift the perception in architects who design buildings often with good imagination and then source the materials to build their designs with from all corners of the planet. I want to take architects into the forest and say to them “Today, there are 50 coppiced chestnut poles, 10 larch and 5 western red cedar ready to be used. Go and design you’re building from this starting point”. It is about putting the local resource first, choosing renewable materials and reducing transport distances. My house has been built for 10 years, the trees I cut the main timbers from are already carrying 6 meters of regrowth, by the time my house is 30 years old, another house will have grown from the same stumps I built mine from."