Artworks

Wooden Structures and Smart Structures

“Wooden structures” are structures made of wood, “Smart Structures” are structures made of intelligent systems. By placing “wooden structures” and “smart structures” in parallel discourse, we investigate the relationship between wooden structures in traditional architecture and modern smart systems. We discovered that modular systems were already invented in Chinese architecture several thousands of years ago. The essence of wooden structures lies in prefabrication: each component in a wooden structure is like an element in an ancient Chinese pictogram, it is the sum of these parts that creates the framework for architecture.
I was invited by Mr. Rem Koolhaas, the Chief Curator of the 14th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition to participate in the part of“Architectural Elements” in the OMA Workshop: a research conducted for “Yingzao Fashi” The main part of the report has been presented at the Biennale and this time I will have an extended interpretation base on it.
I was invited by Mr. Rem Koolhaas, the Chief Curator of the 14th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition to participate in the part of“Architectural Elements” in the OMA Workshop: a research conducted for “Yingzao Fashi” The main part of the report has been presented at the Biennale and this time I will have an extended interpretation base on it.

Participants

FANG Zhenning , LIN Fanyu