Thanks to the emergence of modeling software, contemporary architecture has seen the rise of buildings with complex geometric shapes. Traditional construction methods however lack in agility to ...

Abstract: This paper presents a strategy to design and build strained timber gridshells from exclusively straight timber planks, which are interwoven and elastically deployed into a doubly curved web.

Pritzker prize-winner Shigeru Ban is a master of experimentation with building materials and his latest project, the headquarters for Swiss watchmaker Swatch, in Biel, Switzerland, pushes the physical ...

As a result, the woodlands largely vanished. Timber may be a renewable material, but architects have a responsibility to design with economy in mind. One of the proudest boasts of the Gridshell team ...

The single-storey building has a steel-framed wall and flatroofed perimeter structure which supports four timber gridshells. They are raised above the flat roof on canted kerto columns, set on steel ...

Built the UK’s first timber gridshell. Build the UK’s first timber gridshell The Weald and Downland Gridshell is a building at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex – an open-air centre ...

A mind-boggling number of parts and pieces clad Shigeru Ban’s new headquarters for Swatch in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Nearly 2,800 uniquely shaped facade panels cover the more than ...

Timber, when used appropriately, can be considered as one of the most sustainable building materials within the construction industry. It can be used to maximise a project’s sustainability credentials ...