The student-led Design and Make project Tree and Truss has been featured on Archinect in an online article written by Josh Niland.

The Tree and Truss structure, which was made by Design and Make’s 2022–24 student cohort, combines robotic fabrication processes with new software applications. The mass timber structure is made from locally sourced materials and is a prototype for the structure of a new lecture hall at Hooke Park. The article explains the four key components of the structure, which are the cedar foundation, tree columns, glulam connections and trusses. Read the full article on Archinect here.

The student authors of the project are:
Miquel Chavez Cornejo, Rafael Ferres Echavarren, Yiling Zhou, and Sai Snigdha Pinisetti joined Nicholas Volpe, James Kristian Dent, Maisie Hoile, Yungang Chen, Yifan Wang, Yiting Sun, Joaquin Mosquera Iragorri, Guixin Lin from the school’s MA/MSc program and were guided by program directors with help from staffers Emmanuel Vercruysse, Kate Davies, Wyatt Armstrong, Will Gowland and Sam Turner Baldwin.

Image: Detail of Tree and Truss. Credit: AA Design and Make.