The exploration documents and dissects wood at three primary scales: forestry primarily as it’s situated in New England, mass timber construction, and wood’s heat transfer behavior.  At each scale we try to identify and leverage critical forms of feedback that link architecture to the tran-scalar complexity of wood.  These feedback loops shape three iterative wooden trial huts that test our assumptions and begin to question normative indicators of performance in solid wood buildings.  One set of inquiries unpacks transient heat transfer properties of multiple hard and softwood species across a range of thermal experiments.  Another is focused on the physical procurement of materials and the construction of different types solid wood assemblies.  The third is focused on how large scale thermodynamic variables produced at the forest-scale can influence small-scale thermal performance at the building-scale.   Over the course of the investigation the focus shifts from making and monitoring toward reflecting on what was made.   The physical experiment transitions into a dwelling that yields a different form of data acquisition.