Nine Words - Nine Columns

This book records the efforts of a one-week joint workshop between Master students from Studio 2B of Arkitektskolen Aarhus and Master students from the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China.
The workshop employed nine action words to instigate team-based investigation into the effects of computational and mechanical processes towards an anesthetic. Each team received a single word, translating and evolving that word first into a double-curved computational surface, next a ruled computational surface, and then a physically shaped foam mold via a 6-axis robot. The foam molds then operated as formwork for the shaping of wood veneer.
The resulting columns ‘wear’ every aspect of this design pipeline process and display the power of process towards an architectural resolution.