For the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim, students of NTNU Trondheim designed and built a small viewing platform. The construction explored the potential of automated joinery machines. The participants developed the CNC-optimized detailing and created the data for the manufacturing process with specific timber software.
K. E. Larsen, C. Schindler, F. Scheurer, S. Stori The Ringve Botanical Garden Viewing Platform – Second Case Study on Digital Timber Fabrication at NTNU Trondheim. In: Architecture 'in computro' [26th eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Antwerp (Belgium) 17-20 September 2008, pp. 803-810 pdf, 576 KB