Quick snapshots of our studio's work

I was going to make another post for the work of Victoria and myself but I had already loaded the pictures. So leading off is our project, looking at a timber frame system that adjusts with the contours of the site to provide variations in perforation and views.







The studio being coupled with a wood structures seminar required us to build and test joints within our system. The picture above is two gluelam beams where we test a bolted joint, one with a split ring connection and the other without. The 1/2" bolt alone in the wood failed at 2550 lbs where as the lam with the ring held up to 4250 lbs of load