Concave and Convex: Designing with Curved Wood

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Sculptform Design Studio / Woods Bagot. Image © Peter Bennetts

Curved shapes have always sparked architects' fascination for evoking nature's beauty, fluidity, dynamism, and complexity. To replicate these shapes, however, is no easy task. From their two- or three-dimensional representation to their execution in their final materials, this represents an enormous difficulty, which requires technical expertise and a great amount of knowledge to achieve strong results. Thinking of new ways to produce organic shapes from natural materials is even more complicated.

In addition to this, working with a natural material such as wood carries its own set of peculiarities. Factors such as the species of wood, where the tree grew, what climate it faced, when it was cut, how it was sliced or dried, among many other variables, largely influence the final result. But it's hard for other materials to compare to the beauty and warmth that wooden surfaces bring to the built environment. If the appropriate processes are used, wood can be curved and remain in the desired shape - and for this, there is a number of known techniques which Australian company, Sculptform, has perfected.

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Cite: Souza, Eduardo. "Concave and Convex: Designing with Curved Wood" [Côncavo e convexo: revestindo interiores com madeiras curvadas] 07 Jul 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/963271/concave-and-convex-designing-with-curved-wood> ISSN 0719-8884

Sculptform Design Studio / Woods Bagot. Image © Peter Bennetts

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