Left: An installation piece for the ParaWood project demonstrating complex parametric modelling combined with CNC fabrication strategies. Far left: Results from a preceding “Woven Wood� CITA student workshop demonstrating the idea of active bending as a design principle. Opposite page: One of the reciprocal wood joints developed during the Dermoid workshops.
Timber as case The aim for the project is to investigate the making of digital tools by which architects and engineers can work intelligently with material performance. The project took point of departure in a series of investigations across the partnership on timber construction. These projects explore wood construction as an integrated part of parametrically defined design space interfaced with CNC fabrication (ParaWood), self-bracing structures using tensile performance of wooden slats (Woven Wood) and reciprocal truss systems (tested at SIAL).
- Timber is a traditional building material that crosses many cultures and has a developed tradition of detailing and construction. - Timber is presently used primarily in the building industry. - Timber is a sustainable building material. - Timber is a fibrous material and holds inherent tensile performance . - Timber is traditionally restricted to smaller scale constructions because of the limits of its span. Recent research into glue-lam and composite pre-stressed wood constructions explore the extension of spans in wood construction that would allow for As a chosen focus timber has many relevant properties that further applications of wood construction. will be explored as part of the research project: http://cita.karch.dk