The University of Stuttgart’s Institute for Computational Design has developed a method for building with wood in which a building effectively shapes itself during the drying process.
The institute has demonstrated this effect in the 14m-tall Urbach Tower, near Stuttgart, in which the curved form is “programmed” to occur during the drying process, with the elements of the tower designed and made in a flat state so that they transform themselves into the final building’s curved shape.
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