Inspired by production technologies in the fashion industry, Tailored Structures experiments with the development of a new fabrication method for wood constructions. The structures consist of several 3-millimeter-thick beech wood plates that are sewn together. This is done by an industrial sewing machine mounted on a 6-axis industrial robot. Tailored Structures is the degree project of Martin Alvarez and Erik Martinez, students at the Institute for Computational Design at the University of Stuttgart. Their objective was to develop a new way of interconnecting wood. Using this type of bond, the sewn elements display a high degree of stability while their form exhibits flexibility. In collaboration among human beings and robots, the wooden segments are first elastically bent against each other and then permanently connected by the sewing machine.

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Credits:
Martin Alvarez, Erik Martinez
Thesis Advisers: Ehsan Baharlou, Oliver Krieg, Tobias Schwinn, Lauren Vasey
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Achim Menges
Second Supervisor: Prof. Jan Knippers

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