DATEMonday 23 July

LOCATIONThe University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

REGISTRATIONInterested participants should register online as soon as possible and complete payment no later than Monday 9 July 2018.Full Rate: $400Group Rate (3 or more): $300Student Rate: $270

Contact: j.gattas@uq.edu,auRegister: http://ems.gs/3tMn0hxcauo

Digital Design and Fabrication of Timber Plate Structures1-DAY CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE

This one-day continuing professional development course will introduce participants to computational design strategies for cutting-edge timber building technologies, including digital fabrication of integral timber joints and end-to-end digital design workflows for timber plate structures.

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Traditional wood joinery techniques were successfully employed for hundreds of years in the construction of tall timber structures. Thanks to a resurgence in mass timber construction and a proliferation of computer-numerically controlled (CNC) fabrication machinery, these integral joints are again an economical and performative way to construct timber buildings.

Designed properly, integral joints introduce numerous structural and constructability benefits. These include greater control over part tolerances and mechanical behaviours; self-aligning and self-locking features for faster assembly; and reduced part production cost through optimisation of material use and CNC fabrication time.

Such benefits can only be realised with a high degree of coordination between designer, fabricator, and builder. This course will allow participants to develop the skills required to achieve such coordination and deliver cutting-edge, digitally-integrated timber buildings.

LEARNING OBJECTIVESParticipants will develop integrated, end-to-end digital design and fabrication workflows for production of timber plate structures. This includes:• Introduction to engineered wood products (EWPs), mass timber structures, and CNC timber

manufacture.• Parametric design of integral mechanical joints for various types of timber construction.• Calibration of joint parameters to account for critical features such as manufacturing tolerance

and mechanical behaviour.• Design workflow for a simple structure using 2D parts and joints. Example will utilise the

Rhino/Grasshopper Digital Fabrication Toolbox.• Design workflow for a complex structure using 3D parts and joints, including toolpath

generation. Example will utilise the Rhino/Grasshopper Timber Plate Structures (TPS) Toolbox.Participants in the workshop are recommended to have a basic understanding a parametric design software, e.g. Rhino/Grasshopper or AutoCAD/Dynamo.

Digital Design and Fabrication of Timber Plate StructuresCOURSE CONTENT

COURSE PROGRAMME

8.00am Registration

8.30am Introduction to engineered wood products and CNC timber manufacture.

9.00am Parametric design of timber joints: types, features, and tolerance calibration.

10.30am Morning Tea

11.00am Example 1: Simple structure with Rhino/GH Digital Fabrication Toolbox.

12.00am Example 2: Complex structure with Rhino/GH Timber Plate Structures (TPS).

1.00pm Lunch and tour of UQ Digital Fabrication Lab

2.00pm Example 2 continued.

3.30pm The Australian context: local research, manufacturing, and commercial projects.

4.30pm Casual drinks and nibbles

Kim Baber is a practising Architect and Fellow in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Queensland. In 2015 his practice was awarded the Queensland ‘Emerging Architect’ Prize by the Australian Institute of Architects, and Kim was recently awarded the Gottstein Trust Fellowship to research timber Architecture and fabrication technologies being developed in Europe and Japan. Kim is also a member of the UQ ‘Centre for Future Timber Structures’, and the Australian Research Council ‘Future Timber Hub’. Kim teaches and works on research projects with Architecture and Civil Engineering students where they design, develop and construct prototypes that test innovations in timber design. His practice is also currently working on a range of public and institutional projects adopting large scale timber structures.

Jun. Prof. Dr. Christopher Robeller leads the Digital Timber Construction group DTC at TU Kaiserslautern. He is a registered architect and has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication NCCR dfab at ETH Zurich, as a doctoral assistant at the Timber Construction Laboratory IBOIS at EPFL Lausanne, and as a research associate at the Institute of Computational Design ICD, University of Stuttgart. His research of innovative timber structures and design for assembly and digital fabrication is award-winning and widely published. The research has been implemented in experimental structures including the ICD/itke pavilion 2010 and the IBOIS curved folded wood pavilion, as well as buildings such as the timber folded plate structure for the Vidy Theater in Lausanne.

Dr Joe Gattas is an origami

engineer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. He leads the ‘Folded

Structures Lab’ research group, founded in 2014 at the University of Queensland after completion of his Doctor of

Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2013. The group comprises six PhD candidates and 15 Undergraduate/Master’s thesis students, with $1.2 million in active projects across timber engineering, origami engineering, and digital fabrication. Joe is also a member of the Australian Research

Council Future Timber Hub. The Hub is Australia’s leading timber research collaboration, bringing together experts from industry, government,

and academia who are committed to the future development of tall timber buildings in the Pacific region. Joe’s work

within the Hub is related to digital design and manufacture for innovative structures

and systems.

Presented by The University of QueenslandCRICOS Provider Number 00025B

Digital Design and Fabrication of Timber Plate StructuresCOURSE LEADERS