DS4 - Zero Carbon FuturesA new timber revolution
Design Tutors: Mickey Kloihofer, Jason Coleman;
with Technical/Fabrication/Digital tutors by Jonah Maxted & Tom Sullivan
Guest workshop tutors/speakers:
Pablo Zamorano: Head of Computational Design - Heatherwick Studio
Angel Tenorio: Project Leader (Maggies Centre) - Heatherwick Studio
Stuart Mcalister: Project Leader/Technical Design Lead/Sustainability Champion Heatherwick Studio
Adam Brown: Designer/Maker Heatherwick Studio
Charlotte Chambers: Architect WaughThistleton
A Zero Carbon future is something we MUST embrace, if we humans want to outlast our constructions. We will need to radically rethink how we build and the materials we use and value.
Timber Technology is opening the door to new explosive tImber supermaterials like CLT, glulam, and hybrid structures that are only beginning to explore their full expressive and performative potential, re-thinking how we can build in timber. In combination with a growth in sustainable forestry, timber may hold the best promise for achieving Carbon 0 construction on a massive scale. Prompting a new revolution in timber, but where will it lead?
DS 4 posits the question “What will be the expression for architecture in a future carbon Zero World?” With an emphasis on experimenting with emergent possibilities for fabrication in Timber, and the integration of biological systems, how can we re-imagine our relationship with nature, architecture, material and urbanity in the age of the Anthroposcene? How can we think bigger and bolder about what a architecture could be? Join the revolution and help us see the forest for the trees.