RESONANCE.PATTERN - water jet timber structure
Project information
submitted by
Torsten Müller
Co-Authors
Petter Bolstad, Federico Busco, Pilar Fernández Pascual, Tabea Martha Frisch, Joao Gomes Baptista, EvaHecht, Martha Jansen, Felizitas Khuen-Belasi, Edna Agatha Klenk, Vincent Martin, Magdalena Meusert, Lisa Nghiem, Ngoc Truc Phuong Nguyen, Nina Siegle, Marko Tonins
Mentors
Prof. Dr. Michael Herrmann (AU und BU), Torsten Müller (BU)
Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Degree programme:
Architecture (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Civil Engineering [Construction, Environment, Building Materials] (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Civil Engineering (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Environmental Engineering (Master of Science (M.Sc.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Winter semester 2025/26
- Freifläche 11 / area 11 (hinter x.stahl)
Available during summaery's regular opening hours
Participation in the Bauhaus.Modules
Links
https://www.instagram.com/reel/D…
https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/uni…
https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/arc…
Project description
As part of the interdisciplinary project »Typotopie,« students at the Bauhaus University Weimar designed and built their own exhibition booth for the Leipzig Book Fair. Part of the booth is a roof structure made of birch plywood, which is on display at summaery.
This innovative design approach demonstrates how material efficiency and design excellence can be combined: Plywood panels are cut using precise waterjet technology to create congruent frames, minimizing waste in accordance with the zero-waste principle. When arranged side by side, these elements form a curved spatial structure with optimized load-bearing capacity. The resulting frames are assembled into a seemingly floating, trapezoidal roof. A distinctive feature of the structure is that it can be completely disassembled—all components can be reused multiple times, thereby making a concrete contribution to resource-efficient construction.