Lezingen Touching Cellulose: next generation of wood architecture

Architecture and the building industry are in need of a paradigm shift, due to the growing awareness of their huge contribution to global climate change and ongoing depletion of mineral resources. In order to counter carbon emissions and sourcing building material sustainably, future design and construction is unthinkable without a massive use of timber, the only structural building material that stores carbon while it grows in our forests! The introduction of mass timber at the end of the 20th century as an alternative to concrete and steel was already a huge innovation for the construction industry. Now it is time for the next generation of wood architecture in which computer aided design and robotic manufacturing go hand in hand with a revival of craftsmanship and wood building culture. Touching Cellulose is organized by Gilbert Koskamp and Pierre Jennen in cooperation with Delft University of Technology, the Royal Danish Academy and Technical University of Darmstadt Germany.

This year Touching Cellulose will be an online event on two occasions. On April 23rd 2021 we launch the event with open online lectures. From 13 - 22 September 2021 the international workshop for our registered students and an open lecture series for everyone.

Programme

12:30	Start
12:45	Grow your building / Circularity of materials – a revolution in mass timber lecture by Pablo van der Lugt - AMS Institute, Delft University of Technology
13:30	Official opening international event by Prof. Ulrich Knaack Delft University of Technology and short introduction and information on september event by Gilbert Koskamp with team Pierre Jennen, Anne Beim and Felix Waechter
14:00	Integrated computational form-finding and robotic fabrication of timber structures lecture by Professor Fabio Gramazio, Gramazio Kohler Research ETHZ, CH
15:20	A temporary, circular watchtower, made entirely of wood without screws, glue or nails, insights by students Edmund Green and Ludvig Sundberg, TU Delft
15:40	Radical [wood] Tectonics - the detail is crucial lecture by Professor Anne Beim, Royal Danish Academy
16:00	Case study of timber architecture lecture by Professor Felix Waechter, Technical University of Darmstadt Germany, Waechter&Waechter Architekten
16:20	Q&A

More information

• Please contact Pierre Jennen or Gilbert Koskamp for more information.