Differentiated Tensile Wood Laminate Morphologies This project investigates a component-based wood-laminate material system which organizes itself as a form-active tensile structure with differentiated surface articulation. This material system functions, in concept,...
In summer 2011 the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), together with students at the University of Stuttgart have realized a temporary, bionic research pavilion made of wood at the...
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...
In 2010, the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) designed and constructed a temporary research pavilion. The innovative structure demonstrates the latest developments in material-oriented...
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...
