A library of trees in and around Berlin -- Neubau's Forst Catalogue is
the book that architects, designers, graphic designers, and illustrators
have only dreamed of until now.
"Forst Catalogue" is a collection of detailed silhouettes of urban trees
and separate tree sculptures. In years of manual work, using a method
developed especially for this project, these details have been digitally
removed from their original urban surroundings in Berlin. The materials
are distinguished by their extent, outstanding quality of detail, and
excellent resolution of the usual autotraced digital tree library.
The Berlin trees were selected according to a special matrix. The
letters of the name of the design studio, NEUBAU, were laid over a map
of Berlin. The trees that were located at the structural anchor points
of the letters were marked to appear in the Neubau Forst Catalogue. Over
a period of time, from 2009 to 2013, these trees were systematically
photographed, documented, and catalogued in the summer and winter
seasons. Neubau’s process of selection and distillation gives the trees a
timeless validity, and they can be used universally in future images.
Additionally, so-called “tree modules” were removed from existing
separate trees. They can be set in front of both dark and light
backgrounds of any kind and photographed without any flash. There are
endless combinations of ready-to-use trees and different modules.
