The fea­ture explores build­ing a house with inno­v­a­tive mate­ri­als such as cross-lam­i­nat­ed tim­ber (CLT) and nat­ur­al struc­tur­al insu­lat­ed pan­els (NSIPs) and how this sat­is­fies a demand for more sus­tain­able con­struc­tion that’s not lim­it­ed by the design con­straints of tra­di­tion­al wood­en forms. Illus­trat­ing how this ver­sa­tile mate­r­i­al can be strik­ing­ly con­tem­po­rary, envi­ron­men­tal­ly pro­gres­sive and cost-effective.