Tailored Structures investigates the use of robotics and sensing mechanisms in combination with garment design and industrial sewing techniques to explore a new way of fabricating tailored wood shells.
The intelligence of two-dimensional textile patterning techniques, commonly used in fashion, is translated into an architectural scale through the use of 3mm beech plywood. Sewing is proposed as a connection methodology with similar strength to wood glue, but with the capacity to sew connections that are held together against tension. Sewing joins these tailored wood segments, held in elastic bending to form three dimensional curved structures from two dimensional pieces.