Connected to the seven seas thanks to the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal, the site on the quay links wood-producing countries with the continental market. Here, raw timber is unloaded, stored and processed before being transported over land. The scale of the port area dominates the docks, populated by ocean-going giants, squeezed between wind turbines and factories that only seem to grow bigger with distance.

The reception building, housing the central administration, top off the production site. Amidst seemingly never-ending storage buildings and the planing mill, it welcomes lorry drivers coming to pick up raw or processed wood, and clients visiting the site. Here, lorries, bulldozers, and cars are left behind. Drivers must continue by foot. The realization hits: they then move between objects at a scale incomprehensibly larger than mankind’s.