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Architectural Association students use foraged wood to build "open-air laboratory"

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It is located at the school's satellite campus Hooke Park Working with engineering firm Arup , the students used computer-aided design to incorporate these irregular wooden components into the structure. Each component was scanned and placed into a computer model before areas for each connection were cut using a robotic arm.

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Residential Villa - Frankfurt by Siller Treppen | Manufacturer references

Architonic

The Sky-screw cantilever combines design and engineering skills. A complex hidden steel structure in the wall provides the required statics and the technique to light up the treads. Still, with the mirrored flights on each side of the foyer and the floating landing at the exit, this staircase is still the center piece of the house.

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Ground-breaking engineered stone boasts unmatched depth and quality

Habitus Living

Ibrido, the most recent addition to Smartstone ’s range of engineered stone surfaces, delivers all the qualities its supplier has become famous for. Combining the aesthetic accuracy of porcelain with the benefits of quartz, this technique makes precise veining possible. Responsibility & sustainability. Smartstone.

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Sagrada Familia shows stone "can return to being used as a structural material"

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Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 Top: engineer Tristram Carfrae is a proponent of structural stone. Photo courtesy of Arup.

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Boano Prišmontas creates art gallery that "is unmistakably a barn"

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Designed as a peaceful place to display art, the small gallery combines the traditional barn form with modern construction techniques. We hope that people who are interested in manufacturing can see a way of creating large spaces using small pieces," he said. "We The photography is courtesy of Boano Prišmontas.

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BIG designs all-wood cubic structure as "living curriculum" at University of Kansas

Deezen

The 50,000-square-foot educational building will have a diagrid structure made completely from wood, a feat achieved through the use of notched glued laminated timber ( glulam ) and dowels based on traditional Japanese joinery techniques to eliminate the need for steel fasteners or plates.

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In conversation with: Michael Mulhall, Director of Sales, Dernier & Hamlyn

Hotel Designs

We were working almost throughout because you can’t manufacture physical products by hand remotely. For example, where it makes economic and aesthetic sense, we encourage them to repurpose existing lighting rather than throw it away and manufacture from new. HD: What’s in your factory currently? MM: As ever it’s an eclectic mix.