Ancestral Techniques in the Treatment of Wood by Immersion in Water.

Amarar

In the Balearic Islands there are currently 220,786 hectares (ha) of forest land, i.e. 44% of the surface area of the islands is forested. The vast majority of this surface area (2/3) is forest (185,712 ha), 80,116 ha of which are pine forests.

From 1960 to 2000 the forest area has increased by 26.6%, from 34 to 67 million trees.

Forest fires and other weather phenomena have become more intense and more frequent. The need to reduce the risk of fires makes good forest management and a better use of this raw material essential, as forests are excellent CO2 sinks and, in order to remain so, they need to be properly managed.

On 29 August 2020, a tornado hit the Banyalbufar area, destroying around 736 hectares and destroying 300,000 trees in just a few hours. That disaster led to the creation of ‘Amarar’, a project created to use wood from local trees to make furniture, thus contributing to a change in the production model of the wood sector.

The name Amarar refers to the recovery of local ancestral techniques in the treatment of wood by immersion in water to achieve a more stable, more durable and more workable wood. The innovative design of joints made exclusively with wood, also harks back to techniques that go far back into the past.

Amarar is a project created by Aulets Arquitectos and Carpintería Galmés