Paulownia House
The world's first architecture designed and constructed in the Paulownia wood species. The test house includes a series of innovations and will be our research station for continuing studies of material and environmental behaviour related to architecture, design, and engineering for poetic, performative design.
Træform
By focusing on fast-growing low-density wood species, specifically Paulownia, combined with the development of novel modular, additive structures, Træform offers a new level of sustainable expressive articulation for architects.
Adaptive Daylight
A novel, low-tech, modular and high-adaptive building envelope for the modulation of light, temperature and air in existing primary school buildings.
Acoustic Pavilion I
An architectural pavilion for electronic music. Developed, designed and build for the Aalborg Culture Festival 2011 based on pine plywood, acoustic simulations and evolutionary design process studies.
Acoustic Pavilion II
An architectural instrumental pavilion for classical music. Developed, designed and build for the Aalborg Culture Festival 2012 based on music, pine plywood, foam, acoustic simulations and evolutionary design process studies.
Acoustic Fibreboard Wall
An undulating expressive acoustic absorbing and scatting wall surface. Developed from low cost industrial fibreboard panels using an industrial milling head on robot arm setup. Made on commission for the Building Green Fair 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Acoustic Limestone Wall
An intricately composed double-sided limestone wall assembly of uniquely designed elements with smooth and rippled surfaces for acoustic property control. Designed and developed for the Istanbul Design Biennale 2018, using advanced acoustic and fabrication simulations and evolved by utilising evolutionary search methods. Build through high precision robot fabrication processes.
Acoustic Tiles
An innovation project in architecture, architectural acoustics and architectural robotics. The project explores, studies and develops fourteen unique clay tiles for empowering architects and engineers in designing rich acoustic sensations.
Sense Envelope III
A responsive building envelope driven by thermal changes in the microclimate. Developed, designed and build for the Danish Architecture Center, based on developed material composites, design models and fabrication models. See short film of the project making at the project page.
Sense Envelope IV
A responsive building envelope driven by thermal changes in the microclimate. Developed, designed and build to study oaks fibre based thermal properties, based on developed multi-layer composites of oak and colouration and new design and material dynamics simulation models. See short film of the project making at the project page.
Sense Envelope V
An adaptive building envelope driven by microclimatic and occupancy behavioural stimuli. Developed, designed and build as a oak-PEHD novel composite, based on a large composite material study, systems control, MCU systems and system agility.
Valet Female
A tribute to master Hans J. Wegner and his iconic PP250 chair. The project is a design and making of a new unique chair for the female, made from Mahogany wood retrieved in a through-away-dumpster. A project to illustrate design evolution and up-cycling processes from trash to an articulated design object. And the simple passion of designing and making with high quality wood materials.
Isometri I
Orthogonal lines intersect to create the spatial frame and seat, forming a chair of simplicity and ease of manufacturing. Made as a rapid response to a missing chair for a New Year's party, the Isometri I chair is made in 8 hours from sketch to dinner, created from reclaimed balcony flooring off-cut wood.
Asymptote II
Developed from the same geometry of Asymptote I, the Asymptote II combines Abies Grandis and Mahogany wood species to create a hybrid material structure, with low-density, fast-growing species combined with high-density, homogenous grain characteristics. The Mahonogy is positioned to increase tensile reinforcement, turning the chair into a force-flow material articulation.
Isometri II
A chair of simplicity, lightness and elegance. Developed through the properties of the Paulownia Elongate x Fortunei wood species, the composition of elements to holistic compositions and the use of simple fabrication methods provide the character of the both classical and experimental chair design. The chair weighs 2100 gr.
Isometri IV
Harvested from the same Danish forest as Isometri III, the Isometri IV chair is based on the lightweight Abies Grandis species. The grain characteristics reveal the growth speed, density, and annual dynamics, with clear articulation of the early and late wood periods of the year.
Asymptote I
A sibling to the Isometri Chair, the Asymptote introduces curvature, while maintaining simplicity of form, making and a focus on using all available material from the raw material logs
Isometri III
Using the same geometry and intersection joints as the Isometri I and II chairs, the Isometri III chair is made of Poplar wood with significant spalting due to fungal degradation of the wood. While the geometric composition of the chair remains simple, the expressive characteristics are pronounced, highlighting the intersections, elements and spatial arrangement.
Asymptote III
Taking the hybridisation of wood species further, while maintaining the same geometry as Asymptote II, the Asymptote III chair explores how the super lightweight wood species Paulownia can be combined with reclaimed Mahogany wood. Instead of using the reinforcement as tensile elements, alone, the high-density wood is applied to increase joint intersections and areas of high tensile stresses.
Hyper
A new hybrid performance boat developed as a skin-on-frame structure using Paulownia wood and Dacron textiles, creating an agile 12 kg vessel for rowing, paddling and kayaking. The boat is developed through a new computational method that allows freedom of design while a range of geometric and hydrodynamic factors are simulated in real-time.
Solo
A handcrafted, designed, computed and build novel single sculler of Pawlounia and Mahagony woods. Developed to explore, identify and illustrate design system and making processes for environmental constructions. See short film of its making at the project page.
Vector
A new hybrid boat type, designed, engineered and built to be stiff, fast, light and with a striking profile, combining articulated curves and sharp edges. The boat is developed through at new patented method of combining lightweight Paulownia wood with a glass fiber that allows high geometric freedom and precision, while reducing material use, manufacturing processes and waste in production.