"Throughout history, people have constructed simple timber lattice shelters such as the tepee or yurt, covered with animal skins, leaves, grasses and woven fabrics. Over the last fifty years, more sophisticated webs of wood have emerged, with timber gridshells in particular beco…
Introduction : shells with holes -- Early gridshells -- Second-generation deployable gridshells (post-Mannheim) -- Ribbed gridshells -- Alternative materials and systems -- Recent small-scale projects and research experimentations -- Made to measure : digital fabrication -- Curr…