Reinterpretation of Traditional Wood Structures with Digital Design and Fabrication Technologies
While digital design and fabrication technology has strongly promoted the innovation of wooden architecture from different aspects, they have also provided us with a new perspective to re-examine traditional wood structures. In the digital wood researches
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Abstract While digital design and fabrication technology has strongly promoted the innovation of wooden architecture from different aspects, they have also provided us with a new perspective to re-examine traditional wood structures. In the digital wood researches of DDRC, Tongji University, traditional culture has often played an important role. Both the culture of Chinese traditional wood architecture and western structure systems have become the source of inspiration. This paper presents two research projects that reinterpret traditional wood structures through experimental construction of large scale prototypes. “REVERSE RAFTER” demonstrates the possibility of simulating and reinterpreting Chinese traditional wood tectonics with structural performance based-design and digital fabrication technology, while “DigitalFUTURE 2017 gridshell” showing an approach for extend gridshell system of the west into more complex application. By putting digital technologies under the context of wood culture, reinterpretation of traditional wood structures has the potential to continuously provide inspiration and resources for innovative wood architecture practice. Keywords Reinterpretation · Traditional wood structure · Structural performance Digital fabrication
1 Introduction In the past ten years, almost unprecedented technological development has strongly promoted the innovation of wooden architecture from different aspects. While wood has long been the most tempting building material with the development of material technologies, only in recent years has wood architecture been freed from P. F. Yuan (B) · H. Chai College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China e-mail: [email protected] H. Chai e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 F. Bianconi and M. Filippucci (eds.), Digital Wood Design, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 24, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03676-8_9
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the limitations of frame and truss structure, which should be attributed to the emerging and fast development of digital design and fabrication technology (Menges et al. 2016). Digital design methods, especially performance-based design approaches, has vastly expanded the possibilities of wood structure. At the same time, the growing trend of research in digital fabrication has provided a strong backing for the application of digital wood architecture, accelerating the practice of innovative wood architecture. Not only digital design and fabrication technologies has brought about innovation in wood construction, it also provides us with a new perspective to re-examine traditional wood structures. Digital design methods enable architects to reinterpret exiting structural types with parametric thinking, meeting complex needs of modern life without sacrificing their structural performance. At the same time, while traditional wood tectonics are the accumulation of the experience and understanding of craftsmen through thousands of years, digital simulation te
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