Multi-Story Timber Morphology
Multi-Story Timber Morphology
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Years: 2020-2021
Team: Michael Gosk, Philip Gosling, Harrison Hildebrandt, Kevin Saslawski, Ailey Simpson, Christian Steixner
Tutors: Luis Orozco, Hana Svatos-Raznjevic, Anna Krtschil, Gregor Neubauer
Examiners: Achim Menges, Jan Knippers
Course: ITECH Studio
University: University of Stuttgart
Institutes: Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE)
Publications: DOI:10.52202/069179-0508; DOI:10.1016/j.jobe.2022.104972
The studio developed a novel timber hollow slab building system towards flexible and adaptive multi-story timber buildings, with co-development of building design, skin, building systems, and building service integration. The studio leveraged computational design and digital fabrication to propose a new type of multi-story timber that is flexible, reprogrammable, and freed from a rectilinear grid.
Building System Proposal
My design group built on previous research on multi-directional slab systems at the ICD by proposing a system of integrated structural and service networks embedded within the hollow slab cavity through the computational placement of internal shear webs.
Panelization Strategy
Development lead by Michael Gosk.
Assembly Strategy
Development lead by Philip Gosling.
Design Proposal
The demonstrator building design is located on a long wedge shaped site in Stuttgart. The massing is dented with a courtyard and divided by pathways connecting to a neighboring network of courtyards. The change of use plans shows the flexibility of the building system enabled by the service distribution strategy.
