Made from discarded timber, Log Knot is an infinitely looping, robotically fabricated architectural installation that provides a playful space for the campus community. Log Knot forms an interplay between archaic natural timber geometry, advanced computational structural optimization, and state-of-the art digital fabrication.
Log Knot
Cornell Robotic Construction Laboratory (RCL)
Cornell CCA 2018 Biennial. Ithaca, NY. 2018.
RCL project leadership: Sasa Zivkovic (Director and main project lead), Brian Havener (Research Associate and project co-lead) / RCL project team: Christopher A. Battaglia (Senior Research Associate), Todd Petrie (Researcher), Cait McCarthy (Researcher), Kashyap Valiveti (Researcher), Jordan Young (Researcher, fabrication co-lead) / RCL assembly team: Angel Almanzar, Stephen Clond, Isabel Lucia Branas Jarque, Alexandre Mecattaf, Edward Aguilera Perez, Alexander Terry, Dax Simitch Warke /Cornell Arnot Teaching and Research Forest: Peter Smallidge (Arnot Forest Director)
Project Sponsors: CCA Cornell Council for the Arts / AAP College of Architecture, Art, and Planning / AAP Department of Architecture / FARO Technologies / RCL Wood Research Sponsors: Unalam / Rikon Tools
Photography: Jeremy Bilotti, HANNAH