Building with misfit wood
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Built environments today rely on standardised materials, shapes and structures. While providing ease of use and production, uniform aesthetics leave little room for imperfection and irregularity.
Misfit challenges the current norms and standards through exploring the potential of whole wood – organically shaped wood that deviates from the industry standards, currently either burned, left to forest or processed into cellulose. Could we use wood more sustainably if we also learn to see the potential of whole wood?
The structure has been created by sawing one oak tree into four sections and turning it inside out to create a spatial structure. This experiments with traditional carpentry using robotic machining, which could help to utilise whole wood as mass-tailored structural elements while inviting the aesthetics of nature back into our built environments.
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Doctoral candidate Jaakko Torvinen (ARTS)
Professor Matti Kuittinen (ARTS)
Aarhus School of Architecture
Technical Consultant Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch
Associate Professor Niels Martin Larsen
Associate Professor Anders Aagaard
The project is funded by Askon Säätiö and Koneen Säätiö.
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