MIT engineers build load-bearing structures using tree forks instead of steel joints

Discarded tree forks could replace load-bearing joints in architecture projects using a construction technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The system combines generative design and robotic fabrication to allow tree forks – the pieces of wood where a trunk or branch splits into two – to be used as the Y-shaped The post MIT engineers build load-bearing structures using tree forks instead of steel joints appeared first on Dezeen.
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