Truss & Tree Forks

Project Details

Teams Design & Make, Bowen Tan
Time Period July 2023 - Aug. 2023
Media Used Onsite Fabrication

Project Description

Hooke Park Build is an intensive short programme whose participants assist in the physical production of experimental architecture at the AA’s Hooke Park campus. Working on active projects, participants are exposed to many aspects of timber building – from forestry operations, to traditional building methods, to innovative robotic fabrication.

Design 1

Schedules and itinerary

Design 2

Cleaning the cedar stump after the robotic rough cut

Design 3

Assist with tree felling

Design 3

Setting, Checking the precision for robotic cutting

Design 3

Robotic production - truss chords

Design 3

By-product using cutting waste to make Carlo Mollino-style coffee table

Design 5

Top view with the coffee table

Design 6

Elevation

Design 4

Tea tray - By-product using Ceder stump cutting waste