Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

ISBN-13: 9780367689384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Yves Weinand; Aryan Rezaei Rad; Petras Vestartas

Opis

This outlines a new design methodology for digitally fabricated spatial timber plate structures, presented with examples from recent construction projects, relying on integral mechanical attachment whereby the connection between timber plates is established solely through geometric manipulation.

O autorze

Yves Weinand is an Associate Professor and Laboratory Director for Timber Construction (IBOIS) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is the founder of Yves Weinand Architects in Lausanne and Bureau d’études Weinand in Liège, Belgium. Yves Weinand’s fundamental research and professional activities investigate the technical possibilities of timber and biobased materials in building technology and construction. Through new innovative approaches and transdisciplinary design methodology, his research ambition is to develop a new generation of renewable and ecological construction.