ABSTRACT
Wood products are an intuitive choice for material-constrained design. This chapter includes the examples that will vary in scale from thin wood veneers to heavy timber and processing techniques ranging from a handsaw to a 7-axis robotic arm. In computational manufacturing, wood products are an excellent material selection for testing parametric conditions. The projects illustrated here are representative of the processes employed by Charles and Ray Eames in their furniture studies. Each project in the chapter provides evidence of constraints defined by wood's material performance and connection details. Wood products, when paired with appropriate machinery, can be designed with built-in connection details. The structural capacity of wood products is varied and is most typically driven by their cross section. Wood products have a unique phenomenological character. They are intended to be inhabited in more tactile and intimate ways than almost any other material conventionally employed in building design.
