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Enchanted Forest

Nearly 500 miles from the high-rise apartment that Ralph Weigand and Maurício Uhle share in São Paulo sits a modest, prefabricated cabin, nestled deep in one of southern Brazil’s verdant forests.

The structure is simple—a one-story rectangular box of cross-laminated timber wrapped in powder-coated steel—but its floor-to-ceiling windows

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