The 2013 Australian Timber Design Workshop (ATDW 2013)
The ATDW provides practicing and undergraduate building design professionals with an opportunity to learn handson about the cutting edge use of timber in design and construction. The program specifi cally caters to undergraduate architecture and engineering students, building design professionals, and timber industry practitioners.
The ATDW has a varied and exciting program. Workshop participants will design, fabricate, construct and install a small timber building from a controlled timber-rich palette in eleven days. The building is for a local school, and its students are developing the design brief and will be the workshop's ‘client'.
The ATDW is structured to develop skills in design with wood.
Participants will be encouraged and supported to make full use of the facilities available including a well equipped timber workshop, laser cutters, CNC routers, 3D modelling software, and parametric design tools.
ATDW learning will be by-hand and online. Hands-on tutors for the ATDW include leading building industry professionals with international experience of timber in building design, skilled 3D modellers, technical CAD-CAM operators, and those skilled in carpentry and joinery.
Participants will have access to on-line lectures and learning resources before the ATDW. These will give a background into the design project brief, timber material characteristics, and
precedents.
The ATDW has an extensive lecture and social program.
Keynote lectures by invited speakers will provide participants with a detailed insight into using timber in buildings.
LOCATION:
School of Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania
EDUCATIONAL ACCREDITATION:
Ther ATDW is the equivalent of one academic unit and full documentation will be available for participantss to claim academic credit in their home institution.
