Timber Project
26.02.2010 - 30.05.2010
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Avenue du Tir Federal and Route Cantonale, Lausanne, Switzerland
Humans, who have worked with wood in many different ways for millennia, continue to explore new possibilities today using fractal geometry and sophisticated software.
A true high tech material, wood fuses like metal; it is bent and pleated, braided with suppleness and curved gently into ribbed shells in the expert hands of EPFL s Timber Construction Laboratory (IBOIS), directed by Yves Weinand.
The "Timber Project" exhibit presents current research in timber construction, where interdisciplinarity - in this case, between civil engineering, architecture, mathematics, and computer science - provides a breath of fresh air and a surge of new inspiration. This research, whose timing coincides with current environmental and ecological concerns, is leading to innovative construction solutions that can be efficiently built and are economically viable - a new architecture of wood.
Research conducted in EPFL s Laboratory for Timber Constructions (IBOIS) explores in depth the relationship between engineering sciences and architecture, using wood as a construction material. IBOIS is in the Institute of Civil Engineering in EPFL s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and interfaces with architecture via a studio at the Master s level in the school s Architecture section. Research and teaching, presented in an in-depth manner in the "Timber Project" exhibit, focus on issues surrounding the tangible realization of complex forms and free-form surfaces. |
March 2010
