Holly Tree LOG | 2021

Holly Tree LOG | Collaborative research project with Adam Atraktzi |Supported by the School of the Built Environment at Leeds Beckett University.

Holly Tree LOG documents the life cycle of a single tree from felling to timber processing. In doing so, it investigates waste material flows associated with urban tree arboriculture. The project exploits 3D Lidar scanning to make a digital survey of the tree, explores the repair and manipulation of digital files and the application of this process in design.

The first stage provides a survey of the elements of the tree and establishes a set of computational tools through CNC milling selected outcomes of the survey. A second stage will test a set of design parameters for digital manufacturing of the timber through the production of speculative components for architecture.

 Image: Log02 manipulated digital survey (Adam Atraktzi)