The UTAS School of Architecture and Design is continuing its long tradition of learning-by-making with two workshops this summer in Launceston, Tasmania.
Run by the School’s Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW), the summer workshops are designed to provide students, building professionals, and timber industry professionals with an opportunity to learn about the cutting edge use of timber in design and construction in a practical and hands-on setting.
Participants will have access to on-line lectures and learning resources before both workshops. These will provide a background into the design project brief, timber material characteristics, precedents.
“The multi-day learning-by-making sessions in these workshops provide participants with a unique opportunity to work with experienced timber design professionals and make full use of the fantastic facilities available at UTAS,” said Co-organiser Dr Jon Shanks.
CSAW has two summer workshops on offer:
Digital Fabrication with Timber Studio: 14‐16 January 2013
A three-day intensive studio where participants will conceive, parametrically model, prototype, fabricate and erect geometrically complex wooden structures in full size.
Australian Timber Design Workshop: 4‐15 February 2013
In the two-week Australian Timber Design Workshop (ATDW) participants will design, fabricate, construct and install a small timber building for a local school from a controlled timber-rich palette in eleven days.
