Abstraction Fabrication Research: Timber

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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Dunescape

http://yourenvironmentoftheweek.blogspot.com.au/2011_07_01_archive.html

Interesting overlapping and interpolating of ruled surfaces to create varied geometry

Thursday, 5 April 2012

The Sequential Structure I & II

This teaching project explores potentials of additive digital fabrication of structural frameworks in wood. Standard wooden slat cut to individual sizes are being placed and glued by a robotic fabrication unit. The project aims on developing a spatial parametric structural framework made of wooden slats. The design of the framework defines spatial qualities and light conditions in its interior space. This leads to locally differentiated systems, taking into account structural requirements as well as spatial and formal aspects of the design.

http://www.block.arch.ethz.ch/teaching/sequential-structure-I-II

This is a consulting firm that speacializes in the realisation of complex forms in architecture, often in timber. Lots of good precedents and examples on their site

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Development of Innovative Construction Systems with Glued Laminated Timber and Glass

In the last years, with collaboration of the architects Manuel García Barbero and Kiyanshid Hedjri (Klimark) and other collaborators in various fields, this Institute has been working in research projects related to timber structures and parametric architecture, such as “Development of Supporting Structures based on Technical Timber and Laminated Glass” and “Development of Innovative Construction Systems with Glued Laminated Timber and Glass”.

One of the aims of this project has been the development of an industrial and modular construction system for free forms with glued laminated timber and glass. To achieve this aim, software products as Rhinoceros for form-shaping and EvoluteTools for the tessellation of free forms in few families of triangles with the same length of sides, have been used.

http://blog.rhino3d.com/2012/02/development-of-innovative-construction.html

Parametric Wood

"The Parametric Wood seminar is an advanced digital design research seminar focused on contemporary timber fabrication and long-span structures enabled through parametric design in Grasshopper."

Lots of information and resources on using Grasshopper to generate designs to be fabricated in wood