Aggregated Lamination One of wood’s defining characteristics is its anisotropy resulting from its fibrous structure. Many manufacturing methods and engineering processes in wood lamination have tried to overcome this inherent natural quality, attempting to create a...
Kerf-Based Complex Wood Systems This research projected investigated complex wood systems constructed from steamed, free formed wooded slats and formed through strategic accumulative local weakening and disruption of fiber continuity by kerfing. Thus the project aimed...
Translucent Lamination As a material approach shown throughout wood’s cellular structure, the translucent quality can be instrumentalized through repetitive pattern orchestration. An interest in misalignment of these orchestrated patterns and their relationship...
Steam-Bent Wood Lattice Morphology Bending solid wood is a traditional woodworking technique. As compared to additive or subtractive fabrication techniques, this forming process has considerable advantages for producing curved wooden parts: bending wood is materially...
Differentiated Wood Lattice Shell Until today, the geometry of lattice shells derived through form finding processes has been based on the bending behavior of wooden elements with a uniform cross section. The first research objective of this project was to extend the...
Intersective Laminates The ambitions of this project were two-fold: first, to demonstrate how a very thin engineered surface of wood veneer could span unsupported thanks to its new-found stiffness, and second, to explore how the spontaneous performative responses of...
