Client Woodbury University
Instructor Hans Wendel
Partners Andrew Wong, Quintin Wortham, William Patrick Parker
Location Burbank, CA
Program Chair
For a build class we were assigned a pile of logs from some trees that were
previously cut down from our campus, and instructed to make digital twins of them
and come up with some design to make them into. Each log was to be used, and
there was an additional hurdle of making the majority of the cuts with a Kuka robot
arm (hence the need for digital twins). This was the first iteration I made to show
my partners and to discuss what our logs could become; an attempt to try highly
precise japanese wood joinery with our roughly hewn logs, and then hide the joinery
like they would in a temple. Inspired by a previous trip to Japan House, I used some
photos I had taken of a wonderful joinery condition there as a reference. In the end we
kept many of the joinery techniques but make them less precise to ease fabrication.
