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[non-standard] Mass Timber Architecture “Technology is the answer, but what was the question?” — Cedric Price, 1966. Description This studio focused on ecological construction to explore the potential of mass timber technologies to address new and growing climate...
Robotic Serpentine Wall Description The project “Robotic Serpentine Wall” investigates new, unexpected uses of wood to construct an inhabitable structure. It created a structure that 1) celebrates steam bending’s ability to radically change wood’s structural...
SMASK: A Smart Mask for Amid/Post-COVID Description Due to the critical situation of COVID-19, a smart mask—called SMASK—was designed that lowers a face shield over the wearer’s face whenever someone is detected within six feet. Program Development © M. Huang, X. Liu,...
Introduction to Cognitive Design and Fabrication “The manifest form—that which appears—is the result of a computational interaction between internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures that, themselves, originate in other adjacent forms (ecology). The...
Wood Proto-architecture III: Integrating Design Computation and Materialization “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter.” — Gilles Deleuze and...
Pattern-dominant Bending Tectonics Description “Pattern-dominant Bending Tectonics” investigates the physical and mechanical properties of wood in combination with computational simulation to explore multiscale spatial forms in a freeform, self-standing installation....
Hygrosensitive Kinetic Façade Description The project “Hygrosensitive Kinetic Façade” investigates the architectural application of the hygrosensitivity of wood. The final design is a kinetic façade system installation made of a maple-spruce bilayer that...
Behavioral Robotic Fabrication “A system is “soft” when it is flexible, adaptable, and evolving, when it is complex and maintained by a dense network of active information or feedback loops, or, put in a more general way, when a system is able to sustain a certain...