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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TimberSkin studio does their final presentations and presents some interesting work!
Thanks to our reviewers who were:
Patricia Patkau, Patkau Architects
Javier Campos, CamposLeckie Architects
John Wall, PUBLIC
Fiona McAlpine, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Robert Woodbury, SFU SIAT
Sung Wook Kim, Visiting Professor
Cindy Wilson, Wilson Lang Architects
Oliver Neumann, UBC SALA
Completed in research courses led by Oliver Neumann and myself, these projects are designed and then built on site by students. The projects are fabricated with a Hundegger which does 3 dimensional CAD controlled cuts to create exact jointing of timber elements to each other. Tolerances on the timber are mm (not so on the foundations on site!).
