Conclusion

What you have learned:

• Understand geometrical operations needed to transform NURBS to fabrication and assembly aware geometry for the segmented timber arch.

• Can describe modelling technique of the joints using Grasshopper Plug-in Compas_wood.

• Can explain tenon-mortise and dovetail joinery within the box component.

• Understand the design input of the double layer timber shell and the detailed process of the timber joinery generation including the three-valence connection.

• Can install compas_wood.

• Understand how pair-wise timber joints are generated.

• Understand how joinery can be generated for cases such as planar timber shell, folded plate system, etc.