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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Just awarded a grant to research the impact of autonomous vehicles on urban form and society! More details under TIPSlab…
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TIPSlab has won an AIGA (Re)DesignAward for Sustainable and Socially Responsible Design for their Design Guidelines and Standards for British Columbia’s Electric Vehicle Charging Stations. This work was completed for the Province of British Columbia and BC Hydro under grants from the Provincial and Federal governments.
What does Vancouver want to be when it grows up? A giant green resort for the world’s wealthy of course, chock a block with health inducing goodies such as bike paths, yoga studios and spas. If it has no room for offices or it’s port but that’s ok because it doesn’t need to work, it’s ‘naturally’ gifted.
This is a super article about the ‘creative’ and the wealthy cities of the world…
Expensive Cities are Killing Creativity
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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!).
