The team
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Wood on the Plaza was a massive timber grid shell built on the plaza of the UMass Fine Arts Center for the spring and summer months of 2016. As a public art installation, its purpose was to demonstrate the beauty and new-age sophistication of building with wood. For more information, contact clouston@umass.edu.
Breaking Wood
Local White Ash has high MOR and low MOE…
Bending one lath
We discovered that local White Ash is the perfect wood species for building with high curvatures …
An interview on shell form finding
Rob Marcalow, a UMass Architecture Instructor, helped with programming Grasshopper …
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Also made possible by a grant from the UMASS ARTS COUNCIL