The envelope draws from the shingling logic of Norwegian stave churches, modified so that layers become progressively open from bottom to top: closed against weather at the base, permeable at mid-height for air intake, and fully open at the crown for exhaust. This logic extends into the building's material timeline. Shingles are replaced on a 20-year cycle, secondary structure turns at 50, and the primary heavy timber truss is sized and protected to last a century or more. At the limit of this thinking is a found beam passed between structures across generations, its notches misread as ornament, its origins forgotten, its markings reinterpreted as character. The building banks material for descendants who will not know where it came from.