Spatial Curved Timber Laminas

Exploring Innovative Timber Tectonics

ZHA CODE & SAPL LID

Design
ZHA CODE : Vishu Bhooshan, Henry Louth
SAPL LID : Alicia Nahmad

Fabrication Design
ZHA CODE : Taizhong Chen, Vishu Bhooshan, Henry Louth
SAPL LID : Alicia Nahmad

Fabrication & Assembly
SAPL LID: Matt Walker, Youness Yousefi, Jo-Lynn Yen, Anagha Patil, Guy Gardner, Alicia Nahmad

Documentation
SAPL : Matt Walker, Youness Yousefi, Jo-Lynn Yen, Anagha Patil, Alicia Nahmad
ZHA CODE : Taizhong Chen, Henry Louth, Vishu Bhooshan

With Support from
ZHA CODE : Jianfei Chu, Edward Meyers, Philip SInger
AA: Jean Nicola Dackiw

CAAD Futures Student Participants
Sania Halim, Soubhi Jabal, Elisabeth Kathryn, Aria Sanei, Hussein Hamed, Mansur Arevalo Kishan Prajapati, Jayanaveenaa Periyasamy, Mirian Maia, Diego Pinochet

Digital Futures Student Participants
Zebing Xu, Anuj Mittal, Anagha Patil, Deebak Tamilmani, James Lo, Emi Shiraishi,
Mauricio Villagra D.,Gaurav Janendra, Yuerao Chen, M. Arkan Haqqi, Juan Antonio Brito

In Summer 2021, the Laboratory for Integrative Design (LID) collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects Computation & Design Research Group (ZHACODE) to deliver two weeklong, design-to-fabrication workshops in the context of the international conferences Digital Futures 2021 (June 28 – July 2) and CAAD Futures 2021 (July 12 – 15). The workshops were an exploration on innovative Timber Tectonics. As part of the workshops a full-scale prototype was built at LID.

The prototype has a bounding box of 2.5 x 25. x 3m. It was form-found using 3D graphic statics, and built with an ad-hoc design and fabricated bending machine based on linear actuators and curved glulam laminas. The prototype Spatial Curved Timber Laminas works as a proof of concept of the graphic statics structure form found by ZHACODE and the corresponding fabrication techniques developed at the LID.

Everyone is invited to visit the collaborative prototype Spatial Curved Timber Laminas at the LID.