The blog for the Future Transportation & Urban Form Seminar that I’m teaching this term is available here: T&UF Blog.
This blog contains the work the students are creating this term and has a host of interesting links to articles the students have collected.
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This article made the front page of the Province newspaper in BC. Check it out:
Here is the first wooden shell structure prototype!
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The Parkades of the Future Report for UBC Living Lab is complete.
AnnaLisa Meyboom presented at the Urban Design Forum on urban futures and the disruptive technology of the self-driving car
Oliver Kreig and David Correa from Achim Menges’ Institute for Computational Design will be at UBC to give a lecture and workshop Sept 12-14 at UBC on Machinic Morphospaces in Timber Construction. 
We just finished the Assemblages Intensive Wood Studio with students from South East University in China and SALA. Great work all round! Taught with Blair Satterfield!
Further info: Assemblages Page
AnnaLisa lectured at the Digital Design & Construction of Timber Structures Symposium at the Center of Advanced Wood Processing at UBC
Just awarded a grant to study Parkades of the Future. This is a TIPSlab project which will look at what parkades could become and how they could contribute more to society in future. We will be looking at potentials such as energy, exterior heat-moderated environments, temporary uses, future transportation such as drone landing pads and adaptations such as ground floor alternate uses.
This is a UBC Living Lab project so we will use UBC’s parkades as a testing ground for the ideas.
See TIPSlab for more details.
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Just awarded a grant with collaborators Prof Thomas Tannert (Civil/Wood Sciences UBC), Prof Oliver Neumann (SALA UBC) and Iain Macdonald (CAWP) to research the design and fabrication of large scale timber shell structures using advanced fabrication methods.
I hope this expands the perception of wood in the world to make it the material of choice for curved architectural design. Renewable and easily fabricated with today’s advanced technology. Read more under Research.
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