Use of Flat Interwoven Wooden Strips in Architecture and Construction. Simulation and Optimization Using 3D Digital Models

Abstract

This research aims to promote the use of natural materials in construction. Its purpose is to rediscover the interlacing of flat wooden strips. Attending to environmental criteria, it focuses on the study of wood from a locally produced tree, the chestnut, in the north of Spain. However, the proposed methodology can be universally replicated with local wood productions anywhere. The interweaving of flat wooden strips is linked to traditional basketry, which is at serious risk of disappearing in many places. A combined method based on the design of interlaced artifacts is proposed. For this purpose, the mechanical characteristics of the specific material tested were analyzed in advance. The elastic limit of the material was obtained, and this allowed simulating and optimizing the maximum curvatures of the flat strips in a 3D digital model. New geometric shapes were designed with new interlacing wefts and were built with the tested material. The digital models used serve as a record of the artifacts built, and can be posted on web platforms so that they can be universally replicated. This will allow for the preservation of this heritage of built artifacts using basketry techniques, enabling the proposed objective to be achieved.

Design of Sustainable Modular Wooden Booths Inspired by Revitalization of Croatian Traditional Construction and New User Needs Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

“…When building classic buildings on a construction site, the construction process is much more expensive and longer, while Although this paper deals with an analysis of Croatian traditional wooden construction, similar architectural expressions can certainly be found in other neighboring countries. Numerous authors point to similar problems of the revitalization of rural traditional heritage, sustainable design, vernacular architecture, and construction in other areas [10][11][12][13][14][15], but there are also new efforts being made by creative forces that bring contemporary conceptual examples, which find inspiration in the heritage of traditional architecture, inspirational historical stories, sustainable materials, ecology, and traditional building principles [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28].…”