The Badger Sauna is built in Bondurant, WY on a steep hillside scorched by a forest fire in 2018. The sauna is constructed from site-milled lumber harvested from the charred trees. As the structure went up, I took offcuts of the salvaged lumber to the woodshop. I cut and joined a few blocks of the wood together, then sculpted them to represent the topography of the hillside they came from. Then, the sauna model was built on the sculpted timber base. 

 

The model was cut with an X-acto blade, and the base was cut with angle grinder. The end result is a delicate structure perched on a heavy block of carved timber. It was a satisfying process building a model that tells a story about the architecture and the place it came from.