Growing Timber Structures: Growth algorithms as an alternative approach for integrating design with constraints from materiality, tectonics and production

Martin Tamke; Henrik Leander Evers; David Stasiuk

Growing Timber Structures: Growth algorithms as an alternative approach for integrating design with constraints from materiality, tectonics and production

Martin Tamke, Henrik Leander Evers, David Stasiuk

Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Abstract

The contemporary design of timber structures has to answer questions concerning structural stability, production impact and energy implications in ever earlier stages. The interrelation of these levels creates a complexity that is difficult to resolve through contemporary linear parametric computational models. Hence the lack of feedback about the impact of a design decision onto the design has been identified as source of problems. This paper reports on two speculative projects that integrate generative processes, based on natural growth patterns, with feedback from simulation in order to integrate the behaviour of networked systems into structures made from wooden material.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Beyond the Limits of Man : Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2013
Editors	J. B. Obrębski, R. Tarczewski
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Wroclaw, Poland
Publisher	Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Publication date	Sept 2013
Edition	First
Publication status	Published - Sept 2013
Event	Beyond the Limits of Man: International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2013 - Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland Duration: 23 Sept 2013 → 27 Sept 2013

Conference

Conference	Beyond the Limits of Man
Location	Wroclaw University of Technology
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Wroclaw
Period	23/09/2013 → 27/09/2013

Keywords

Digital design
Growth algorithms
Wood manufacturing
Material behaviour
Active bending
Growth patterns
Feedback simulation
Simulation
Natural growth processes
Networked systems

Artistic research

Yes

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http://www.iass-structures.org/

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1 Active

The Rise
Tamke, M., Stasiuk, D. & Ramsgaard Thomsen, M.
01/01/2013 → …
Project: Other
Complex Modelling
Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M., Ayres, P., Nicholas, P., Stasiuk, D., Holden Deleuran, A., Pauly, M. & Gengnagel, C.
01/09/2013 → 31/08/2017
Project: Research

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Tamke, M., Evers, H. L., & Stasiuk, D. (2013). Growing Timber Structures: Growth algorithms as an alternative approach for integrating design with constraints from materiality, tectonics and production. In J. B. Obrębski, & R. Tarczewski (Eds.), Beyond the Limits of Man: Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2013 (First ed.). Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. http://www.iass-structures.org/

Tamke, Martin ; Evers, Henrik Leander ; Stasiuk, David. / Growing Timber Structures : Growth algorithms as an alternative approach for integrating design with constraints from materiality, tectonics and production. Beyond the Limits of Man: Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2013. editor / J. B. Obrębski ; R. Tarczewski. First. ed. Wroclaw, Poland : Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, 2013.

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Growing Timber Structures: Growth algorithms as an alternative approach for integrating design with constraints from materiality, tectonics and production. / Tamke, Martin ; Evers, Henrik Leander ; Stasiuk, David.
Beyond the Limits of Man: Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2013. ed. / J. B. Obrębski; R. Tarczewski. First. ed. Wroclaw, Poland: Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, 2013.

Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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Growing Timber Structures: Growth algorithms as an alternative approach for integrating design with constraints from materiality, tectonics and production

Abstract

Conference

Keywords

Artistic research

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Projects

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Complex Modelling

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