Our work aims to reduce resource use by making every piece of timber “work harder and smarter.” We investigate how geometry, material grading, connection design, and assembly logic can be orchestrated to achieve high structural performance with less material. By coupling advanced analysis, computational design, and multi-axis digital fabrication, we develop new families of prefabricated components, interlocking connections, and modular systems that minimize waste, shorten construction time, and increase robustness and reparability.
Our research is driven by built work and large-scale prototypes rather than models alone. We do not stop at simulations as we bring digital workflows all the way to fabrication, assembly, and testing. Collaborations with industry, other academic institutes, and communities allow us to implement new structural concepts in real projects and full-scale demonstrators, from pavilions and housing modules to experimental façade, structural connections, and floor systems. These projects stress-test our methods under real constraints (specifically, tolerances, costs, codes, logistics, and most importantly, structural performance) and feed those lessons back into fundamental research.
To support this vision, we develop and contribute to open-source platforms for modeling, analysis, and fabrication of mass timber systems. Our goal is to make structural reasoning and digital fabrication workflows accessible so that architects, engineers, fabricators, and policy-makers can collaborate around a shared, intelligible digital model of the building, from concept to CNC!
