Category: Timber
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Timber Tower
This design makes use of the ‘Conifer Column’ fictional patent. Its structure is composed of triple-pronged assemblies, each with beams radiating in 6 directions. Thick 9-ply panels of CLT compose the pronged vertical (trunk-like) and horizontal (branch-like) elements of each Conifer Column. These are joined together with steel connections hidden within the structure and behind…
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Stick Stack
This method of construction is suited to temporary installations, deconstruction, and reconstruction, and structures like this could be built almost anywhere. It’s even imaginable that sets of beams could be manufactured with excessive notching to create a kit of parts from which varied assemblages could be composed. Although the Stick Stack is a frame system,…
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Materials and Methods
To understand contemporary building techniques, a local mass timber building was researched, analyzed, and modeled with fellow students Megan Gahlman and Samuel Winemiller.