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Wood is one of the most versatile materials known. You can coax it into uncountable forms. However It exhibits extremely complex behavior, as if it were still living. This tome dives deep into woodology, and returns with great insight into what wood wants. It is essential understanding for anyone wishing to master working with wood.
-- KK
Understanding Wood
Bruce Hoadley
2000, 280 pages
$27
Available from Amazon
Sample Excerpts:
A knot is the basal portion of a branch whose structure becomes surrounded by the enlarging stem. Since branches begin with lateral buds, knots can always be traced back to the pith of the main stem.
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Various shapes of red pine have been dried and superimposed on their original positions on an adjacent log section. The great tangential than radical shrinkage causes squares to become diamond-shaped, cylinders to become oval. Quarter-sawn boards seldom warp, but flat sawn boards cup away from the pith.
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A wafer cut from a kiln-dried plank of white ash shows no symptoms of stress (left). Another section from the same plank, after resawing (center) reveals the casehardened condition (tension in core, compression in shell). Kiln operators cut fork-shaped sections that reveal casehardening when prongs curve inward (right).
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Most of the boards in the drying shed at left are restrained by the weight of the others. At right is a similar, simpler setup, where the wood is protected by a sheet of corrugated plastic. In both cases, the boards are stacked in the sequence they came off the saw.
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Red oak end grain cut with a ripsaw (right), which mangles the cell structure, and with a crosscut saw (left), which severs the fibers cleanly.
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Plastic extruded from this robotic 3D printer solidifies instantly, allowing it to draw freeform shapes in the air extending from any surface. (more...)
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Library in Ban Tha Song Yang by Rintala Eggertsson Architects
The new building offers the Safe Haven Orphanage a library and study area and is also a gathering space and is frequently used for play, games and crafts.
Find more at: http://bit.ly/16fdFIr
Architects: RMA Architects
Location: Panvel, Mumbai, India
Architect In Charge: Rahul Mehrotra
Consultants: Vijay K. Patil & Associates, D.R.Bellare, Riyaz Rangwala, Sunil Services, Sewri
Area: 2,415 sqm
Year: 2007
Photographs: Ariel Huber, Rahul Mehrotra, RMA Architects
The campus for the Mumbai-based NGO, Magic Bus, contains dormitories, administrative buildings and a dining facility for children from the slums of Mumbai who visit the campus for training programs.
In order to create a sense of familiarity, the palette of the buildings was comprised of the ordinary materials that are used for everyday buildings in slums and squatter settlements, where most of the participating children live. In fact, through the process of design, it was also imagined how these buildings could be embedded back into the slums, to serve as community centers and other public programs. Thus the project was used as a staging ground or experiment to readdress some of these architectural questions in the slum itself.
The tectonics of the building was developed as a kit-of-parts that could be configured for various institutional uses ranging from community toilets to clinics and education centers in the slums. The idea here was to surround the children with a sense of familiarity through the materials used but also inspire them to re-imagine their use in a more sophisticated configuration. It is hoped that these become points of reference when they engage in reconstructing the own homes whether in slums or elsewhere.
Magic Bus / RMA Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 13 May 2013.
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