Working Group 12: Timber Spatial Structures

Mission

To disseminate state-of-the-art information on the structural design and architecture of timber spatial structures and promote their use as an environmentally benign form of construction.

Current Objectives

• To produce a special issue of the Journal of the IASS on the structural design and architecture of timber spatial structures.

• To develop a web-based archive of timber spatial structures and timber technology on the WG12 area of the IASS website

• To publish a state-of-the-art report on the structural design and architecture of timber spatial structures.

• To expand the membership of the group interested in timber grids (single layer, double layer, reciprocal frame, lamella); shells; grid shells; domes and vaults; bridges; innovative timber-based materials; engineered timber; joints; bamboo structures; historic and high-rise timber structures.

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