FRAMEWORK

Robotic Fabrication

ReconWood Construction Kit

Robotic Assembly & Disassembly

ReconWood emerges within the research environment of SDU CREATE, the Center for Computational Research in Emergent Architectural Technology and Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark, dedicated to exploring how materials can be rethought as a high-performance, data-driven building system.

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RECONWOOD SLAB

VOXEL-BASED DESIGN WITH ASTRESS-DRIVEN TIMBER FRAME

Master's Thesis
Giuseppe Marrone, Davide Angeletti | Supervisors: Roberto Naboni, Anja Kunic

The ReconWood Slab redefines timber construction through a reconfigurable, stress-based, multi-resolution framing system. Leveraging principles for circular construction, it utilizes discrete, reversible timber elements with automation-driven joinery, enabling slab structures to be adaptable to changing conditions and to different lifecycles.

This innovative approach employs a voxel-based computational workflow to generate quickly structurally efficient configurations. This method facilitates diverse design options while reducing computation time.

A multi-resolution process, combined with an evolutionary solver, enables the iterative exploration of the multiple design options, optimizing material distribution until an optimal balance between timber usage and structural stress is achieved.

The workflow maintains a seamless digital-to-physical transition, preserving data from design to fabrication, assembly, disassembly, and reassembly via QR codes on each element.

Robotic fabrication, coupled with Mixed Reality and a tailored User Interface, enables the assembly of ReconWood beams, supporting agile and adaptable architecture.