Emergent Timber Technologies: Materials, Structures, Engineering, Projects - Hardcover

Jeska, Simone; Pascha, Khaled Saleh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3038215023 ISBN 13: 9783038215028

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2014

Synopsis

The “old” material of wood has been used to construct dwellings of different types since the dawn of mankind. And not without reason. Its low density combined with high rigidity, good processability, and its resistance makes it an excellent building material.
There is currently a pioneering renaissance of the timber construction, for two distinct reasons: first, wood is increasingly being rediscovered as one of the most important renewable raw materials for sustainable construction. Moreover, a revolution in the construction of timber structures began several years ago with the ever-progressive use of three-dimensional CAD models for digitally controlled robot manufacturing
The book documents these developments, in particular the engineering bonding techniques, the introduction of digital production techniques, and the innovative material developments of this material. The chapter on composite structures and experimental structures specifically address trends toward the future-oriented dimensions of timber construction.
In the final section, outstanding designs are documented in detail, such as the Club House of Haesley Nine Bridges Golf Course designed by Shigeru Ban in Yeoju, South Korea, and the double gymnasium in Borex-Crassier, Switzerland, by Graeme Mann and Patricia Capua Mann.

About this title

About the Author

Simone Jeska and Khaled Saleh Pasha both worked at the Technical University in Berlin at the Chair of Prof. Rainer Hascher.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3038215023
• ISBN 13: 9783038215028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176