Pee ela eV a Ae damp tema yan ON A BUILDING SCALE ae Timber is coming to the fore as a contemporary construction material Not only sustainable, its suppleness, adaptability and strength make it highly attractive for experimental designers, Yves Weinand founded the interdisciplinary timberfabric research project at IBOIS, the Laboratory for ‘Timber Fabric, at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (3230 Rny order to fully explore innovative timber construction techniques. Here Yves Weinand and Markus Hudert describe the Textile Module, which Hudert developed, in order to investigate timber’s ability for ‘social behaviour’, or Breater structural strength, once woven into a textile-like form.Pte aed mel rented acdc rec has become resngly porate acetal ect, seve cts, Ft conte to centempeny concepts inartiterr an improves thir mpementton, Todays architec are long fra deer underage ‘nd echnologal questions related aie: exhale omer methods and rca comida se m0 Magee ny let pci wre theese in the put. The inportnce of Ahsgn pecs ae laely copied Ihe ite in tine tnd expt tht more often han ot confound the alain ofa nitions Adem each an fil sap and oie chitectral practices with the never ‘Second seh ht a ty toads one of the biggest aciecaldllenges of rine; namely hw t achive ‘sinable bling Sosy argeoing sen of the lage eed use esemble mater ulin contraction san undeniable ality and har ome an porn parameter fr ache prion. 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An emp aptoch ing ase of yal model i pied tae teactnlop jetonsThe The maginad andthe Materia. Architectural poco rer the ps decade has been math byastong fection forthe image. The sedtve sete digital ache modeling an vis qos related the material ed ae whe ceding dominated ove ateton toa mate nl tobilding wale It constuction Amboalet mage were, "eX he qeron of alt tent, Varios ination hae oe yan balding ‘th sch sae jmp on sal tn how thy alec th pa and mechanical eavou of ractcs I has be tered tha ag the protease higher ext and die seni tis ponblt deine a pes doa ae ctr gen wale Bat tha go yet ben o dfn parameter that dente the opinion of ths suctre toagh ieet vals whe heping rion the same Furthermore the undeying rae, ng how ich raion ocuror hen thy acu te ot yee ened The dy of thi fcnating oic 1 the changing beh Sas 2cros the dierent sales pind examination of this ‘The it tof oar ‘pstematiconparons erent intial sacred. ‘he deformed secre for evey gen structural propa oe sromety. 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