Rethinking wood : future dimensions of timber assembly / Markus Hudert, Sven Pfeiffer (Eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudert, Markus, 1974- editor.

Pfeiffer, Sven, editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building, Wooden.

Building, Wooden--Technological innovations.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland ; Boston [Massachusetts] : Birkhauser Verlag, [2019]

Contents:

Foreword / Klaus Zwerger

Preface / Markus Hudert and Sven Pfeiffer

[I.] Concepts and perspectives : Think like the forest: maximizing the environmental impact and energetics of building timber / Kiel Moe

Cascading wood, material cycles, and sustainability / Mark Hughes

Wood on the rise: a speculative approach to timber construction and joinery in Southeast Asia / Michael Budig

[II.] Joinery culture : Designing through experimentation: timber joints at the Aalto University Wood Program / Pekka Heikkinen and Philip Tidwell

Reciprocal timber structures and joints / Olga Popovic Larsen

Press-fit timber building systems: developing a construction system for flexible housing solutions / Hans Drexler

Glued connections in timber structures / Gerhard Fink and Robert Jockwer

[III.] Digital processes : Freeform timber structures: digital design and fabrication / Toni Österlund and Markus Wikar

Brining robotic fabrication into practice / Léon Spikker

Concepts for timber joints in robotic building processes / Philipp Eversmann

Joyn machine: towards on-site digital fabrication in bespoke woodwork / Simon Deeg and Andreas Picker

[IV.] New materials and applications : From pulp to form: future applications of cellulose / Heidi Turunen and Hannes Orelma

Wood foam: a new wood-based material / Frauke Bunzel

TETHOK: textile tectonics for wood construction / Steffi Silbermann, Stefan Böhm, Philipp Eversmann, and Heike Klussmann

[V.] Reapproaching nature : Designing with tree form / Martin Self

The (d)efficiencies of wood / Marcin Wójcik

Baubotanik: living wood and organic joints / Ferdinand Ludwig, Wilf Middleton, and Ute Vees.

Notes:

IIncludes bibliographical references (pages 276-285).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Other Format:

PDF version

ISBN:

9783035616897

3035616892

OCLC:

1099451227

Publisher Number:

9783035616897