Advanced Timber Structures. Architectural Designs and Digital Dimensioning

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two possible constellations of laterally adjacent modules can be envisaged: either fully aligned or rotated in relation to one another by the length of half a module.

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approximately described as the linear extrusion of a ­ cross-section profile. However, one can also imagine two-directional structures that are extruded along a curved line. This could be achieved if the individual archshaped units were based on tapering components. As a secondary effect, the global cross-section of such structures would have a non-continuous curvature. One example of a two-directional configuration is shown in the following figures. This configuration is comprised of mutually rotated, self-contained, higherorder units and is implemented with V-shaped connector elements.

Minimum distance in a lateral direction to the span In a lateral direction to the span, the minimum distance between the central axes of two modules corresponds to the measurement of their width, which is determined by the dimensions of the basic panels. In this case, the two structures touch each other at their lateral edges. To avoid this, the minimum distance is set to twice the width of the components used in the modules. In interconnected structures, this distance is defined by the length and angle of the lengthening elements, whereas the angle is in turn determined by the geometry of the timberfabric module. The geometry depends on the connection detail and the proportions of the panels. The global geometry of each of the variants of two-directional timberfabric presented here can be

A number of observations can be made regarding oneand two-directional timberfabric, some of which are listed below.

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Observations on one- and two-directional timberfabric


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