Key：Metrostudio Architecture Trip

项目概况:

The students from the AA Design & Make course were tasked with utilising timber from beechtrees at the Hooke Park woodland campus to create a shelter for drying woodthat will be used in future building projects. The students designed aframework with a twisting hexagonal pattern that enabled the two-metre planksto be combined to form a continuous canopy. Rising to form a verticalwall at one end, the structure transitions into a flat roof that twists through90 degrees before descending to touch the ground at the other end. Metal polesattached to the concrete foundations support the framework, which is covered ina PVC-polyester membrane held taut by a system of push-up extensions to thebolts that fix the frames together and tension wires attached to a curvingglue-laminated outer frame. The structural qualities of the steam-bent wood wereanalyzed by the engineering department of Bath University and the material istreated with an inert chemical to protect it from fungi and insects. Sectionsof the roof were constructed in a facetedshed previously built at the campus by AA Design & Make students usingtree trunks and larch cladding from the forest.