The Wood Chip Barn at the AA’s Hooke Park campus was recently featured in Architect Magazine in an article titled Unprocessed Potential: Can Raw Trees Replace Engineered Timber? Outlining new experiments with minimally processed wood slash waste and in robotics, the article situates the Wood Chip Barn project alongside Tree Form by Kennedy Violich Architects, MIT and WholeTrees Structures.

The article explains the process of building the Wood Chip Barn where the project team arranged whole tree forks horizontally to create an exposed central truss:
‘Robotics, digital twin simulations, and local beech trees were all part of the fabrication process. This project – and others like it – proves that non-standard, minimally processed wood can enable architectural forms once deemed too irregular or labor-intensive.’

To find out more, read the article here.